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| Title: | Subjectivity in Servitude: The Servant and Indigenous Family Arrangement in Written Igbo Drama |
| Author: | Chukwukere, Frances N. |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Periodical: | Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907) |
| Volume: | 30 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pages: | 112-129 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Nigeria West Africa |
| Subjects: | Igbo domestic workers drama Architecture and the Arts Literature, Mass Media and the Press Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Labor and Employment Art, Architecture, Music, Drama Domestics Subjectivity Serfdom Igbo (African people) family |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24484624 |
| Abstract: | Membership into the African family may be on the basis of natural (birth) or social (marriage, adoption, apprenticeship, etc.) selection. The present article examines the temporary family member of the type called 'nwa odibo' (literally: little servant) as portrayed in eight plays written in the Igbo language (Nigeria) by six authors: Inno Nwadike, J.C. Maduekwe, Goddy Onyekaonwu, Walter Eneore, G.I. Nwaozuzu and Nkechi Okediadi. It considers the perception of the servant by other characters in these plays, the way in which each of the eleven servants perceives him/herself, and the roles of the servant in the development of the entire fictional enterprise. Finally, the theory of subjectivity, the conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions that largely account for the relationship between the individual and the society, is used to explain the playwrights' presentations of the servants in these dramatic works of fiction. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |
