Paper Title :Omen and Divination in African Literature: Study of Selected Works of Igbo Playwrights
Author :Stella Ogonna Okafor
Article Citation :Stella Ogonna Okafor ,
(2016 ) " Omen and Divination in African Literature: Study of Selected Works of Igbo Playwrights " ,
International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS) ,
pp. 121-129,
Volume-2,Issue-11, Special Issue-1
Abstract : Part of the major pre-occupations of writers all over the world is to produce literary composition such as poems,
plays, and critical essays via imagination. To do this, to adopt some idiosyncratic approaches, which give their works certain
peculiarities or uniqueness? Nevertheless people at times tend to overlook this while reading such works. They have not tried
to find out why such writers chose to be identified with particular styles. For instance omen and divination are predominant
phenomena in the plays of some contemporary Igbo playwrights like Godwin Onyekaonwu, A.B.C Chukwuezi, Enyinna
Akoma and many others. It is that gap that the resent study intends to fill in selecting some of the works of these Igbo
playwrights with a view for examining the extent to which the incidence of omen and divination help to enhance and
elucidate the themes of these works. The selected Igbo plays are Nwata Rie Awọ and Akụ Fechaa. The examination of the
incidence of these phenomena is based on theory of myth. In order to achieve this purpose, the researcher adopted a
descriptive survey method. This is because there are so many Igbo drama texts written by different authors but data of the
research were collected only on those that have ominous and divinatory phenomena in them. Through this method it was
discovered that the authors made use of these phenomena to explore the culture and traditions of Igbo people which form the
common motif of their plays. Secondly Igbo cultures are myth in Igbo which they respect, reference and not mere
superstition. They are in various cultures of the world. The authors project them for documentation, preservation and
posterity.
Key words- Omen, Divination, African Literature, playwright
Type : Research paper
Published : Volume-2,Issue-11, Special Issue-1
DOIONLINE NO - IJMAS-IRAJ-DOIONLINE-6333
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