WOLE SOYINKA: Politics, Poetics and Postcolonialism

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  with the Nazis.But since by itself punning is not high on the totem pol ...

 Wole Soyinka dramatic verse dialogues in plays likeThe Lion and the Jewel,Death and the King’s HorsemanandThe Bacchae of Eur ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  discreetmelaninizationof the presumed “whiteness” of the achievements of ...

 Wole Soyinka plunder and repression. These are the first four poems in the volume, “Ah, Demosthenes!,” “The Children of this ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  “Exit,” the shortest poem inOutsiders, is dedicated to the late French Pr ...

 Wole Soyinka this introduction, Byrd observes that “for a writer in exile, the only home is language and the genres of liter ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  indifferent world, a world of “millions fugitive from truth,” a world whe ...

 Wole Soyinka “Poems for Hire” shows that perhaps the terrifying advance phalanx of the “new race (which) will supersede the ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  seventh poems respectively in the collection and the last two poems for r ...

 Wole Soyinka to the publication of this most recent of his five volumes of poetry. I think this is probably due to a powerfu ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  render them service that would assuage the great terror of their deaths a ...

  “Things fall together”: Wole Soyinka in his Own Write The Will of man is placed beyond surrender. Without the know- in ...

“Things fall together”: Wole Soyinka in his Own Write  Soyinka about any other living or dead contemporary writer – except pe ...

 Wole Soyinka perhaps even more significant than direct commentary or praise. This is the incidence of perceptible echoes of ...

“Things fall together”: Wole Soyinka in his Own Write  directed at corrupt, demagogic politicians of thes in Nigeria. And ...

 Wole Soyinka of Soyinka criticism. Rather, as in any other major writer’s work, it is a “problem” that applies to specific w ...

“Things fall together”: Wole Soyinka in his Own Write  writings as fragments, and almost always in ironic de-formations. The ...

 Wole Soyinka argued that the god of revolution chose to make a habitation in Soyinka’s writings, not in the familiar mask of ...

“Things fall together”: Wole Soyinka in his Own Write  of Africa’s most abundantly gifted writers. Although more has been pub ...

 Wole Soyinka refused to romanticize and idealize the counter-hegemonic violence of his great protagonist characters and thei ...