Concept and Components of Performance

Egwu, Anya Ude

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_2

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“…This could but not necessarily entail the use of dialogue, verbal and/or non-verbal. It bears clarifying also that while we are away of the specific and general differences between theater, drama, play, and performance (Egwu, 2021, dwells on this), as has been made clear in scholarship, for example, in performance studies (PS), this article limits itself to the restricted understanding of all four terms as behaviors involving people or things in a role-playing business in a chosen location with audience participation. In this basic sense, oral performances are drama, theater, play, or performance.…”

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Deployment of Rhetorical and Literary Tropes in Ewa-ọma Festival Performances of Nkporo, South-East Nigeria

2021

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African traditional drama has been researched from several perspectives. But there are hardly studies fully focusing on the deployment of language to achieve performance goals in particular performances. This failure may have roots in the widely held assumption that verbal language (dialogue) is not a serious element of African traditional drama. Studying language in particular performances will show that there are instances of full and effective deployment of verbal communication in the African traditional drama. This article, therefore, studies language in ewa-ọma performances. Using basic literary appreciation and critical analysis methods, with a new historicist bias, the literary and rhetorical components of language are identified and analyzed according to their space-time relevance in two performances, to demonstrate the manner of realization of dialogue and (inter)weaving of literary and rhetorical strategies. Literary tropes and rhetorical devices are effectively deployed in well-developed dialogues to achieve a satirical goal in the performances.

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confidence: 98%