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Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : 0914478494
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.
Author : Biodun Jeyifo
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Authors, Nigerian
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110321655
Essays that examine the aesthetics and the radical politics of one of Africa's greatest writers
Author : James Gibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : African literature (English)
ISBN : 0435916130
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Authors, Nigerian
ISBN : 1617032530
Essays that examine the aesthetics and the radical politics of one of Africa's greatest writers
Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Anthony Appiah
Publisher : Amistad Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1567430511
Author : Anjali Gera Roy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129795071
Contributed articles.
Author : James Gibbs,Bernth Lindfors
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Authors
ISBN : 0865432198
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
Author : Biodun Jeyifo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139439084
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.
Author : Bernth Lindfors,Bala Kothandaraman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African literature (English)
ISBN : UOM:39015064679114
South Asian readers and scholars find Wole Soyinka and his work especially fascinating. The manner in which he deals with colonial and postcolonial experience, the metaphysical strain embedded in his commentaries on his Yoruba heritage, and the numerous comparisons he makes with other cultures appeal to a South Asian sensibility. His brilliant style, versatility in handling a variety of genres, and wonderfully ironic sense of humor are also extremely impressive. Moreover, his social activism in particular, his fearless opposition to suppression of any kind renders him a charismatic and inspiring figure. He is the sort of person who attracts, generates and actively takes part in controversy. These multifaceted and multitalented characteristics, often paradoxical, appeal to South Asian minds which also view life in a holistic rather than a bipolar manner. The essays in this volume focus on all the major genres in Soyinka's oeuvre: fiction, poetry, criticism, autobiography, and especially drama. The contributors employ a variety of critical techniques in coming to terms with the writings of the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08
Category : Authors, Nigerian
ISBN : 0413777251
Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300189025
A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure. He deeply comprehends the pressing problems of Africa, and, an irrepressible essayist and a staunch critic of the oppressive boot, he unhesitatingly speaks out.In this magnificent new work, Soyinka offers a wide-ranging inquiry into Africa's culture, religion, history, imagination, and identity. He seeks to understand how the continent's history is entwined with the histories of others, while exploring Africa's truest assets: "its humanity, the quality and valuation of its own existence, and modes of managing its environment—both physical and intangible (which includes the spiritual)."Fully grasping the extent of Africa's most challenging issues, Soyinka nevertheless refuses defeatism. With eloquence he analyzes problems ranging from the meaning of the past to the threat of theocracy. He asks hard questions about racial attitudes, inter-ethnic and religious violence, the viability of nations whose boundaries were laid out by outsiders, African identity on the continent and among displaced Africans, and more. Soyinka's exploration of Africa relocates the continent in the reader's imagination and maps a course toward an African future of peace and affirmation.
Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Authors, Nigerian
ISBN : 157806337X
Within these interviews, Soyinka is forthright, clear and eloquent. He addresses many facets of his writing and plumbs pressing issues of culture, society and community.
Author : Mpalive-Hangson Msiska
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004358126
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.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410342898
Author : Bola Dauda,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501375781
This timely and expansive biography of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate, and social activist, shows how the author's early years influence his life's work and how his writing, in turn, informs his political engagement. Three sections spanning his life, major texts, and place in history, connect Soyinka's legacy with global issues beyond the borders of his own country, and indeed beyond the African continent. Covering his encounters with the widespread rise of kleptocratic rule and international corporate corruption, his reflection on the human condition of the North-South divide, and the consequences of postcolonialism, this comprehensive biography locates Wole Soyinka as a global figure whose life and works have made him a subject of conversation in the public sphere, as well as one of Africa's most successful and popular authors. Looking at the different forms of Soyinka's work--plays, novels, and memoirs, among others--this volume argues that Soyinka used writing to inform, mobilize, and sometimes incite civil action, in a decades-long attempt at literary social engineering.
