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Critical Disourse Analysis Of Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again
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1.3 JUSTIFICATION
In the best knowledge of the researcher as a
theoretical construct has not been used in analyzing Our Husband has
Gone Mad Again by Ola Rotimi. Thus, the study is justifiable as it seeks
to investigate the sociopolitical and cultural issues that are inherent
in the text. It is also believed that this study will be an additional
work in the scholarship of the study of CDA, especially at the
undergraduate level.
1.4 METHODOLOGY
This project is basically a
Critical Discourse Analysis or Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband Has Gone Mad
Again. Some selected conversations and utterances will be selected from
the text for analysis.
Norman Fairclough’s theory of CDA has been
chosen for the analysis of this research work, some elements have been
selected from the theory including the political and sociocultural
issues which occur in the text and leads to the society. The textual
analysis sociocultural analysis and the political issues of this text
will be analyzed.
1.5 DATA DESCRIPTION
The play, Our Husband
has Gone Mad Again, is a political satire. It shows the follies and
fables of the entire political system in Africa and Nigeria in
particular, in a bid to correct some of its anomalies. It lampoons the
protagonist Major Rahman Teslim Lejoka-Brown a former military officer
who takes to politics with the motif that looks more of vanity
patriotism. Ola Rotimi takes a comic swipe at the ideological misfits
and opportunist who strut the ever accommodating political landscape of
the continent Africa.
1.6 AUTHOR’S BACKGROUND
Olawale Gladstone
Emmanuel Rotimi, best known as Ola Rotimi was born in Sapele, former
Bendel state of Nigeria on 13th April, 1938, to an Ijaw mother and
Yoruba father, so cultural diversity was a recurring theme in his work.
He was a playwright, stage director, producer, actor, critic, scholar
and a teacher. In his early age, he was exposed to a traditional Nigeria
heritage of arts. He was educated at Methodist Boys High School in
Lagos from 1952 to 1957. He went to Boston University for a bachelor’s
degree in theatre arts where he studied play writing and directing. He
later went to Yale University where he had masters in the arts after
three years and retired to Nigeria in 1966. While in America, he got
married to a French Canadian lady, Hazel a renowned artist, actress,
singer and pianist. In Nigeria, Ola Rotimi took a job at the University
of Ife, where he was a research fellow from 1966 to 1969 at the
institute of African studies. He later became the head of creative arts
and director at the University of Port Harcourt.
The dramatic works
of Ola Rotimi are known throughout Africa and have made him one of the
most significant playwrights on that continent. While he was at Yale
University on a Rockefeller fellowship, his socio-political comedy Our
Husband has Gone Mad Again was chosen as Yale’s student play of the year
in 1966. Ola Rotimi examines Nigerian’s history and ethnic traditions
in his works. Some of his published works are: Introduction to Nigerian
Literature, The Gods Are not to Blame (London: Oxford University Press
1971), Kurunmi (Ibadan: University press Limited 1971), Our Husband has
Mad Again (London: Oxford University press 1977), Ovourumwen Nogbaisi
(Benin: London: Ethiopian and Oxford University press 1974), If : A
Tragedy of the Ruled (Ibadan: Heinemann 1983). He was in Nigeria until
his Nigeria until his death in 2001.
Ola Rotimi is sure to be
remembered as a model in the literary genre whose views have shaped the
conduct of the theater and whose plays have demonstrated the power of
drama to shape the thinking of the society and attempted to solve some
of the problems encountered in everyday living.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ] Analysis on a discourse level has been used in the analysis of texts, but this study attempts to carry out a Critical Discourse Analysis of Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again. The Norman Fairclough theory has been applied in this approach, paying more attention on the socio cultural and political issues in the text. The text, is a social drama which the author has used to expose some societal ills in the society, gender inequality and power relations in the text. ... Continue reading---
