GRIT
The play follows a family trapped in a political struggle that drives its members toward choices that wound one another. Through tense dialogue, it shows how political violence seeps into the home.
Work Information
What tears the family apart is not power from outside, but desire that has already taken root inside.
"Grit" is a play set in the fictional town of Sonofa, where two brothers, both former soldiers, and their father are caught in a chain of political ambition that destroys the family from within. With sharp dialogue and an allegorical structure, Obari Gomba stages a dense conflict between power and conscience.
Review Summaries
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Its tight structure and forceful conflicts are often seen as major strengths, especially in the way family loyalty collides with political ambition. Readers and critics alike note the tension of watching relationships fracture under tragic pressure.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Published
- 2023-03-24
- Pages
- 97 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 0.64 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789788523161
- ISBN-10
- 9788523161
- Price
- 1459 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Political
Obari Gomba, a multiple award-winning writer, is an Honorary Fellow in Writing of the University of lowa (USA). He has been TORCH Global South Visiting Professor and Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford (UK). He is presently the Associate Dean of Humanities at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria. In 2018, his Guerilla Post won the Association of Nigerian Authors Drama Prize. His poetry collection, The Lilt of the Rebel , won the PAWA Prize for African Poetry in 2022.