WOLE SOYINKA: Politics, Poetics and Postcolonialism

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  of both Western and African religious rituals and their assoc ...

 Wole Soyinka movies; the subculture of marijuana smokers in the criminal underworld of petty felons and “hired guns” (“thugs ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  or professional colleagues. More importantly, the imputation ...

 Wole Soyinka .: She wasn’t going to burn his money though. Oh Sergeant Burma was a rich man. He searched the pocket ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  finally his own private esoteric system compounded out of cab ...

 Wole Soyinka  (turns and holds him with his eyes): Oh yes, you rushed out and vomited. You and the others. But afterwa ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  : I pleaded insanity. : Who made you insane? (b ...

 Wole Soyinka verbal jousts and language games between linguistic duelists, or in the spirit of a fervent evangelizing Africa ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”   : Justify the meanness... : Practise...  ...

 Wole Soyinka a pervasive but logical confirmation of the Old Man’s deeply disturbing, sardonic insights. There are of course ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  The specifications for the realization of Elesin’s performanc ...

 Wole Soyinka of the numinous, regenerative forces of nature. This is the only basis on which Iyaloja’s hesitation, as the mo ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  people, an entire society.This is not a transparent motif i ...

 Wole Soyinka beyond the edge of emptiness – you muttered, there is little that one man can do, you left us floundering in a ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  Pilkings – remains unscathed at the end of the play, that is, ...

 Wole Soyinka epistemic foundation of colonial authority. But by the same token, Olunde is also the unhappy nemesis of his fa ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  Shakespeare and the other Elizabethans, it is of course so mu ...

 Wole Soyinka formation of guilds and phratries. Man reaffirms his indebtedness to earth, dedicates himself to the demands of ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  compelling. But the very fact that these changes work to make ...

 Wole Soyinka the plays. The paradox of great theatrical and aesthetic resourcefulness serving as a vehicle of world-weary pe ...