Wole Soyinka : politics, poetics, and postcolonialism /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jeyifo, Biodun, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Colección:Cambridge studies in African and Caribbean literature.
Temas:
Soyinka, Wole > Criticism and interpretation.
Soyinka, Wole > Political and social views.
Soyinka, Wole > Critique et interprétation.
Soyinka, Wole > Pensée politique et sociale.
Soyinka, Wole.
Politics and literature > Nigeria.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism > Nigeria.
Politique et littérature > Nigeria.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Postcolonialisme > Nigeria.
Nigeria dans la littérature.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature.
Political and social views.
Politics and literature.
Postcolonialism.
Nigeria > In literature.
Nigeria.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • '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.

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