WOLE SOYINKA: Politics, Poetics and Postcolonialism

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  “Conversations at night with a cockroach” is a long poem of eighteen stan ...

 Wole Soyinka Survival was insured in policies to embrace The degree of wavering weather vanes. Our sirens poised inked talon ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  of a nation in which the unremitting surfeit of violence and atrocities e ...

 Wole Soyinka “Conversations at Night” ought to become a poem of conscientization hung on the moral soul of progressive human ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  Silence,” the volume’s longest and central section. Typical of the fusion ...

 Wole Soyinka these two figures from Western literature to make ironic, self-deprecating comments on idealists and visionarie ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  Spells,” the target is Yakubu Gowon, head of the civil-war military regim ...

 Wole Soyinka the metaphoric and symbolic, perhaps the most successful poem in this section is “Ujamaa” which turns out to be ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  It is from this preface, for instance, that we get a sense of the ex- tre ...

 Wole Soyinka overturning of the sustaining positive values of faith and grace preached by all religious creeds: Vulture pres ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  the prison chamber for the physical and mental torture of prisoners. In t ...

 Wole Soyinka If it seems serendipitous that the third and fourth of Soyinka’s five vol- umes of poetry,Ogun AbibimanandMande ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  the heady and pervasive racialization that decisively shaped N ́egritude ...

 Wole Soyinka consciously builds on the axiomatics of chanted, performed oral poetry in its extensive use of a single image, ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  this poem to conflate myth and history and to merge willed pastoralism wi ...

 Wole Soyinka historical Shaka is shown, if not adequately in the poem itself, in the commentary that he enters on the Zulu m ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  If read somewhat expansively and “sympathetically,” what these lines amou ...

 Wole Soyinka Are you now the crossword puzzle expert? Chess? Ah, no! Subversion lurks among Chess pieces. Structured clash o ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  post-Soweto period, this construction of Mandela in the mold of the Corio ...

 Wole Soyinka Ghosts, but as that ritual homily Time-honored in the office of loss Not seeking martyrdom, the midnight knock, ...