WOLE SOYINKA: Politics, Poetics and Postcolonialism

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  snare of sublimity” for enslaved or dominated groups. This is ...

 Wole Soyinka to doanythingthat it would take to set things aright, to make whole that which has been befouled or damaged by ...

  The ambiguous freight of visionary mythopoesis: fictional and nonfictional prose works What I do see is a new voice co ...

 Wole Soyinka As much in his prose as in his poetry and drama, Soyinka’s brilliance as a wordsmith in language is consistentl ...

Visionary mythopoesis in fictional and nonfictional prose  entails language usage as both medium of expression and an idiom w ...

 Wole Soyinka artistic versatility than this statement by Soyinka on his aversions toward the novel as a literary form. But b ...

Visionary mythopoesis in fictional and nonfictional prose  play,Oba Koso, is most definitely not a “modernist” work and while ...

 Wole Soyinka accepting the challenge that this poses of asserting and expanding a hu- mane, life-affirming ethic. This patte ...

Visionary mythopoesis in fictional and nonfictional prose  fantasy, daytime nightmares and absurdist language games to negoti ...

 Wole Soyinka the other protagonists of the novel, is of course equally dramatic and tragic, but it is given far less narrati ...

Visionary mythopoesis in fictional and nonfictional prose  bureaucratic elite, hypocrisy and mediocrity among middle-class pr ...

 Wole Soyinka and destroy the village if any attempt is made to test its workability. Told in this dry paraphrase, this seems ...

Visionary mythopoesis in fictional and nonfictional prose  He was nearly shouting. ‘Convert! I converted nothing. What you wr ...

 Wole Soyinka general and specifically in Kola’s painting, are flawed and “incomplete” essences who must themselves constantl ...

Visionary mythopoesis in fictional and nonfictional prose  the unusual writing tablets provided by the few books that did som ...

 Wole Soyinka with the cause of Truth, Justice and Humanity. Where else in modern African literature would one find both the ...

Visionary mythopoesis in fictional and nonfictional prose  in the war itself, lends “death” a special resonance in the book a ...

 Wole Soyinka protection.It was indeed at the height of this civil war-induced state of emergency that the famous Agbekoya r ...

Visionary mythopoesis in fictional and nonfictional prose  spiritual withering, or to a passion for revenge which results in ...

 Wole Soyinka the lunatic wing of the prison. In these mini-narratives, the prose style assumes a haunting, almost sacramenta ...