1st Edition
Esu-Elegba’s Crossroads Transcultural Creativity in the Works of Femi Euba
Introduction: Crossroads of generational thinking
Eric Mayer-GarcÃa and Solimar Otero
1. The Man Died: Wole Soyinka’s imprisonment and the Yoruba trickster tale in Femi Euba’s Tortoise!
Iyunolu Osagie
2. Ritual and theatre at the crossroads of poetics, politics and epistemology: Femi Euba (and WS)
Biodun Jeyifo
3. Esu’s crossroads and Ogun’s crossing over: Intercultural creativity and postcolonial futurity in the theater of Femi Euba
Eric Mayer-GarcÃa
4. Words to choreograph: Ritual archetypes of/at Esu’s crossroads
Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka
5. Camwood: African and African American identities at the crossroads
Agnès Dengreville
6. Myth, performance, and creation: The achievement of Femi Euba
John Wharton Lowe
7. A conversation between Femi Euba, Wole Soyinka and Biodun Jeyifo
Femi Euba
8. Globalization and a grain of salt: Reflections of a participating emigrant-playwright
Femi Euba
Biography
Eric Mayer-GarcÃa is Assistant Professor of Theatre History, Theory, and Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has published research on vanguard theatre, latinidad, and theatre historiography in Theatre Survey, Journal of American Folklore, Atlantic Studies, Theatre History Studies, Chiricú Journal, Theatre Journal, and various edited collections.
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Solimar Otero is Professor of Folklore and Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures (2020), and co-editor, with Anthony Bak Buccitelli, of Emerging Perspectives in the Study of Folklore and Performance (2025).
