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Jero Plays
Contributor(s): Soyinka, Wole (Author)

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 ISBN: 0413292401     ISBN-13: 9780413292407
Publisher: Methuen Drama
OUR PRICE: $15.15  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: September 2009
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Annotation: This volume contains two short plays about Brother Jeroboam, the rather less than holy West African "beach divine." In the first play, The Trials of Brother Jero, the charlatan preacher, burdened by a cross "daughter of Eve," uses Christian superstition for his own salvation. In the sequel, Jero's Metamorphosis, the profit-minded "prophet" thwarts a government attempt to cleanse the beach of all the dubious brethren who ply their trade there.

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BISAC Categories:
- Drama
Dewey: 896
Series: Modern Plays
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5" W x 7.6" L (0.25 lbs) 96 pages
 
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'Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest' - New York Times Book Review

These hilarious and vicious two plays examine the corruption of Nigerian society through a study of the rise and fall of one of its self-made charismatic preachers.'Wole Soyinka's Nobel Prize for Literature is a triumphant affirmation of the universality of this novelist, poet, film-maker and political activist.' - Guardian

Contributor Bio(s): Soyinka, Wole: - Wole Soyinka--playwright, novelist, poet and polemical essayist--was born in Nigeria in 1934. Educated there and at Leeds University, he worked in the British theatre before returning to West Africa in 1960. In 1986 he became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
 
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