WOLE SOYINKA: Politics, Poetics and Postcolonialism

Preface xix must have a justificatory or celebratory discourse around them, a lan- guage which serves as a very important curren ...

xx Preface I explore tradition in this study in the figure of thesublime, the figure which confronts conventionally “beautiful” ...

Preface xxi of affect” or of the impersonal regime of the “author effect.” In the study will be found a “subject” who is present ...

xxii Preface avant-gardism and political radicalism in Africa and the developing world. No work of course exists in a vacuum or ...

Preface xxiii comradeship I shall always treasure and whose many conversations with me on the subject of Wole Soyinka brought an ...

xxiv Preface The debts to “Kongi” are equally as great, even if they are infinitely more difficult to assess or express. I can o ...

Chronology  BornJuly, at Abeokuta, western Nigeria, the second child of Samuel Ayodele and Grace Eniola Soyinka. – A ...

xxvi Chronology University align the institution with the unpopular gov- ernment of Samuel Ladoke Akintola. General social and p ...

Chronology xxvii a book of his prison experience,The Man Died, published in.  Receives Jock Campbell-New Statesman Liter ...

xxviii Chronology of the African Peoples and is elected its first Secretary- General.  Yakubu Gowon overthrown in a military ...

Chronology xxix successful run at the Goodman, production is transferred to the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC where it is als ...

xxx Chronology and uses the BBC World Service and the international press to condemn the corruption of the just concluded electi ...

Chronology xxxi rule canceled by the military dictatorship of Ibrahim Babangida. Massive protests in Lagos, Ibadan and other Nig ...

xxxii Chronology October. Publication ofThe Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness.  June, meets Mumia Abu-Jamal, the p ...

Abbreviations ADO Art, Dialogue and Outrage, Ibadan: New Horn Press, ADO Art, Dialogue and Outrage, New York: Pantheon, ...

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  ‘Representative’ and unrepresentable modalities of the self: the gnostic, worldly and radical humanism of Wole Soyinka ...

 Wole Soyinka Soyinka was once a rookie writer, a neophyte artist, even if his rise to fame seemed instantaneous and meteoric. ...

The gnostic, worldly and radical humanism of Wole Soyinka  James Joyce’s classic fictional autobiography,A Portrait of the Arti ...

 Wole Soyinka evaluative analysis of this phase of Soyinka’s literary career has to be especially mindful of the challenge of s ...