WOLE SOYINKA: Politics, Poetics and Postcolonialism

Visionary mythopoesis in fictional and nonfictional prose  Isara customs and traditions, decides that Agunrin Odubona “must b ...

 Wole Soyinka author’s father, of the daunting task that he and his generation face in their success in installing one of the ...

Visionary mythopoesis in fictional and nonfictional prose  of acute consciousness of the determinate causes of rural poverty ...

 Wole Soyinka political pathologies. The word is a corruption of “peculiar mess” and was coined by the popular supporters of ...

Visionary mythopoesis in fictional and nonfictional prose  the conflation inIbadanof the subplot of an epic hero’s life with ...

 Wole Soyinka be apprehensive about, in himself. Others might give it different names, but he was inclined to see it as havin ...

Visionary mythopoesis in fictional and nonfictional prose  It was exhilarating, and it did mean for him the long-dreamt-of ho ...

 Wole Soyinka setting where these encroachments have distinct compulsions toward petty-bourgeois conformism about them. The r ...

Visionary mythopoesis in fictional and nonfictional prose  he stepped onto the tarmac at Ikeja Airport, the end of a five-yea ...

 Wole Soyinka opposition parties outside the East were in disarray, and at any rate had no credible response whatsoever to th ...

Visionary mythopoesis in fictional and nonfictional prose  followers, against the consolidated forces of rapine, lawlessness ...

 Wole Soyinka contribution to the genre of modern African and English-language au- tobiographical memoir. Particularly notabl ...

Visionary mythopoesis in fictional and nonfictional prose  character,” and “indivisible national unity.” Given Soyinka’s pred ...

 Wole Soyinka “deaths” presage, for Soyinka, the “death” of the nation since, nations are made of people, not abstractions. B ...

Visionary mythopoesis in fictional and nonfictional prose  role of paradox, chance and contingency in human affairs, especial ...

  Poetry, versification and the fractured burdens of commitment The roots of Soyinka’s English are uncompromisingly Angl ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  the volume, the “spider” of the last line standing for the poet who has s ...

 Wole Soyinka writer’s corpus of poetry, to encounter many poems which read nothing like the Soyinka we have come to expect f ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  calculated to startle most of Soyinka’s academic critics who, on the ques ...

 Wole Soyinka technical craftsmanship and highly differentiated techniques and idioms requiring an appropriate degree of tech ...