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Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
Author | : Wole Soyinka |
Publsiher | : Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Nigeria |
ISBN | : 0914478494 |
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Distinguished scholars analyze the plays, poetry, and prose of Wole Smoyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. Essays trace his career and place his work in the general context of African literature.
Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
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Author | : James Gibbs |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : African literature (English) |
ISBN | : 0435916130 |
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Wole Soyinka
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Author | : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Anthony Appiah |
Publsiher | : Amistad Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1994-02 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1567430511 |
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Critical Perspectives on Nigerian Literatures
Author | : Bernth Lindfors |
Publsiher | : Three Continents |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0914478273 |
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Nigeria is endowed with oral and written literatures in a variety of languages. This collection focuses on work in the three major vernacular languages - Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa - as well as on the important authors writing in English.
Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Authors, Nigerian |
ISBN | : 1617032530 |
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Essays that examine the aesthetics and the radical politics of one of Africa's greatest writers
Research on Wole Soyinka
Author | : James Gibbs,Bernth Lindfors |
Publsiher | : Africa World Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : 0865432198 |
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A broad introduction to the works of the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian writer and the varieties of criticism they have elicited. There are many different critical methodologies represented, ranging from those concerned with verbal texture (linguistic, structural, and textual approaches) to those focusing on cultural context (historical, mythological, and comparative studies). Most of the articles were originally published in Research in African Literatures. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Postcolonial Identity in Wole Soyinka
Author | : Mpalive-Hangson Msiska |
Publsiher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789042022584 |
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Soyinka's representation of postcolonial African identity is re-examined in the light of his major plays, novels and poetry to show how this writer's idiom of cultural authenticity both embraces hybridity and defines itself as specific and particular. For Soyinka, such authenticity involves recovering tradition and inserting it in postcolonial modernity to facilitate transformative moral and political justice. The past can be both our enabling future and our nemesis. In a distinctive approach grounded in cultural studies, Postcolonial Identity in Wole Soyinka locates the artist's intellectual and political concerns within the broader field of postcolonial cultural theory, arguing that, although ostensibly distant from mainstream theory, Soyinka focuses on fundamental questions concerning international culture and political identity formations - the relationship between myth and history / tradition and modernity, and the unresolved tension between power as a force for good or evil. Soyinka's treatment of the relationship between individual selfhood and the various framing social and collective identities, so the book argues, is yet another aspect linking his work to the broader intellectual currents of today. Thus, Soyinka's vision is seen as central to contemporary efforts to grasp the nature of modernity. His works conceptualize identity in ways that promote and modify national perceptions of 'Africanness', rescuing them from the colonial and neocolonial logic of cultural denigration in a manner that fully acknowledges the cosmopolitan and global contexts of African postcolonial formation. Overall, what emerges from the present study is the conviction that, in Soyinka's work, it is the capacity to assume personal and collective agency and the particular choices made by particular subjects at given historical moments that determine the trajectory of change and ultimately the nature of postcolonial existence itself. Postcolonial Identity in Wole Soyinka is a major and imaginative contribution to the study of Wole Soyinka, African literature, and postcolonial cultural theory and one in which writing and creativity stand in fruitful symbiosis with the critical sense. It should appeal to Soyinka scholars, to students of African literature, and to anyone interested in postcolonial and cultural theory.
Wole Soyinka
Author | : Biodun Jeyifo |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2003-11-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781139439084 |
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Biodun 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. He gives a fascinating account of the profound but paradoxical affinities and misgivings Soyinka has felt about the significance of the avant-garde movements of the twentieth century. Jeyifo also explores Soyinka's works with regard to the impact on his artistic sensibilities of the pervasiveness of representational ambiguity and linguistic exuberance in Yoruba culture. The analyses and 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 and the developing world. No existing study of Soyinka's works and career has attempted such a systematic investigation of their complex relationship to politics.