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• Title:
  Towards a feminist theatre in Nigeria: Julie Okoh’s Closed Doors examined
• Creator:
  Yeseibo, John Ebimobowei
• Description:
  Okoh is a prolific playwright whose feminist inclination is not anyway in doubt. In her plays, especially Closed Doors, she addresses issues bordering on the woman question. Such issues include generally sexual injustices against women such as pedophilia, rape, female genital mutilation, forced abortion and unrequited love. Closed Doors focuses on the psychological crises of subaltern women whose lives have been vexed by a complex array of disturbing and thwarting personal relationships, particularly their relationships with their ‘treacherous’ lovers. The play is an expose on the vulnerability of women as a result of unbridled patriarchal arrogance. The main aim of this study is to situate Closed Doors as a feminist theatre. To achieve this, the salient characteristics of feminist theatre shall be teased out to serve as a tapestry against which this study shall posit whether Closed Doors is or is to become feminist theatre. The literary and sociological methodical approaches are adopted here; sociological because the point is established here that there is a dynamic and complex relationship between a work of art and the social realities under which it is produced.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2018 John Ebimobowei Yeseibo
• Date:
  2018.12.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Journal of Gender and Power; Vol. 10 No. 2 (2018); 9-24;
  Journal of Gender and Power; Tom 10 Nr 2 (2018); 9-24;
  2657-9170;
  2391-8187
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/jgp/article/view/jgp.2018.10.001/28796
• Subject:
  Close doors;
  Feminist;
  Theatre;
  Feminist theatre;
  Okoh
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/jgp/article/view/jgp.2018.10.001
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text