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Wole Soyinka : politics, poetics, and postcolonialism

Author: Biodun Jeyifo
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Series: Cambridge studies in African and Caribbean literature.
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"Jeyifo examines the connections between the innovative and influential writings of Wole Soyinka and his radical political activism. Jeyifo carries out detailed analyses of Soyinka's most ambitious works, relating them to the controversies generated by Soyinka's use of literature and theatre for radical political purposes. The evaluations of this study are presented in the context of Soyinka's sustained engagement  Read more...
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Named Person: Wole Soyinka; Wole Soyinka; Wole Soyinka; Wole Soyinka; Wole Soyinka
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Biodun Jeyifo
ISBN: 0521394864 9780521394864
OCLC Number: 52312477
Description: xxxiii, 322 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 'Representative' and unrepresentable modalities of the self: the gnostic, worldly and radical humanism of Wole Soyinka --
Tragic mythopoesis as postcolonial discourse --
critical and theoretical writings --
The "drama of existence": sources and scope --
Ritual, anti-ritual and the festival complex in Soyinka's dramatic parables --
The ambiguous freight of visionary mythopoesis: fictional and nonfictional prose works --
Poetry, versification and the fractured burdens of commitment --
"Things fall together": Wole Soyinka in his own write.
Series Title: Cambridge studies in African and Caribbean literature.
Responsibility: Biodun Jeyifo.
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"Jeyifo examines the connections between the innovative and influential writings of Wole Soyinka and his radical political activism. Jeyifo carries out detailed analyses of Soyinka's most ambitious works, relating them to the controversies generated by Soyinka's use of literature and theatre for radical political purposes. The evaluations of this study are presented in the context of Soyinka's sustained engagement with the violence of collective experience in post-independence, postcolonial Africa. No existing study of Soyinka's works and career has attempted such a systematic investigation of their complex relationship to politics."--BOOK JACKET.

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