Akintunde Akinyemi is Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.

• .- Introduction.- Section I: Reconfiguration of Cultural Traditions & History.- 1. Onomastic Strategies: Names and Naming of Characters.- 2. Myth, Legend, and Poetics of Heroism in Ọba Kòso and Ṣàngó.- 3. History and the Dramatists: The Reenactment of the Nineteenth Century Yoruba Ijaye War in Ọla Rotimi’s Kurunmi and Wale Ogunyẹmi’s Ijaye.- Section II: Echoes of Oral Poetic Genres.- 4. Old Wisdom, New Role: Proverbs in Akinwumi Iṣọla’s Madam Tinubu: Terror in Lagos.- 5. The Art of Praise Singing (Oríkì) in Modern Drama.- 6. Reconfiguration of Folk songs in the Dramaturgy of Akinwumi Iṣọla, Wọle Ṣoyinka, and Fẹmi Ọṣọfisan.- Section III: Orality and Aesthetic Transfer in Video Films.- 7.           Ifá Divination Motif in Yoruba Video Films.- 8. Orature, Aesthetic Transfer, and Social Vision in Ṣaworoidẹ and Agogo Èèwọ̀.

Akintunde Akinyemi is Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.

• .- Introduction.- Section I: Reconfiguration of Cultural Traditions & History.- 1. Onomastic Strategies: Names and Naming of Characters.- 2. Myth, Legend, and Poetics of Heroism in Ọba Kòso and Ṣàngó.- 3. History and the Dramatists: The Reenactment of the Nineteenth Century Yoruba Ijaye War in Ọla Rotimi’s Kurunmi and Wale Ogunyẹmi’s Ijaye.- Section II: Echoes of Oral Poetic Genres.- 4. Old Wisdom, New Role: Proverbs in Akinwumi Iṣọla’s Madam Tinubu: Terror in Lagos.- 5. The Art of Praise Singing (Oríkì) in Modern Drama.- 6. Reconfiguration of Folk songs in the Dramaturgy of Akinwumi Iṣọla, Wọle Ṣoyinka, and Fẹmi Ọṣọfisan.- Section III: Orality and Aesthetic Transfer in Video Films.- 7.           Ifá Divination Motif in Yoruba Video Films.- 8. Orature, Aesthetic Transfer, and Social Vision in Ṣaworoidẹ and Agogo Èèwọ̀.

Akintunde Akinyemi is Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.

• .- Introduction.- Section I: Reconfiguration of Cultural Traditions & History.- 1. Onomastic Strategies: Names and Naming of Characters.- 2. Myth, Legend, and Poetics of Heroism in Ọba Kòso and Ṣàngó.- 3. History and the Dramatists: The Reenactment of the Nineteenth Century Yoruba Ijaye War in Ọla Rotimi’s Kurunmi and Wale Ogunyẹmi’s Ijaye.- Section II: Echoes of Oral Poetic Genres.- 4. Old Wisdom, New Role: Proverbs in Akinwumi Iṣọla’s Madam Tinubu: Terror in Lagos.- 5. The Art of Praise Singing (Oríkì) in Modern Drama.- 6. Reconfiguration of Folk songs in the Dramaturgy of Akinwumi Iṣọla, Wọle Ṣoyinka, and Fẹmi Ọṣọfisan.- Section III: Orality and Aesthetic Transfer in Video Films.- 7.           Ifá Divination Motif in Yoruba Video Films.- 8. Orature, Aesthetic Transfer, and Social Vision in Ṣaworoidẹ and Agogo Èèwọ̀.