WOLE SOYINKA: Politics, Poetics and Postcolonialism

The “drama of existence”: sources and scope  sentiment behind the following statement of affirmation of the legacy of one part ...

 Wole Soyinka Only a comprehensive and sympathetic study of the historic conditions which produced the theatre of Hubert Ogund ...

The “drama of existence”: sources and scope  Africa and the contemporary world. And most important of all, Soyinka’s plays are ...

 Wole Soyinka amateur and semiprofessional companies in Africa, some of which the Nigerian dramatist himself founded and devel ...

The “drama of existence”: sources and scope  playwright, with a total of three plays,A Scourge of Hyacinths,From Zia with Love ...

 Wole Soyinka by Soyinka became more perceptible as climates of uncertainty gave way to regimes based on terror and the foment ...

The “drama of existence”: sources and scope  had to tailor his plays to the exigencies of the staging and production context, ...

 Wole Soyinka farce. With regard to the dynamics of stage performance, he is probably at his most adept in extemporizing on th ...

The “drama of existence”: sources and scope  such large doses of genre-bending features that their staging as straight- forwar ...

 Wole Soyinka these in turn inflect the theme of power itself. This observation demon- strates how, on the same basic theme, S ...

The “drama of existence”: sources and scope  of power represented by maniacal tyrants like Kongi, the dictator of Isma. Opera ...

 Wole Soyinka This view of the “disseminated,” unfocused and circulatory nature of power to which Michel Foucault and Vaclav H ...

The “drama of existence”: sources and scope  IMF and the World Bank retrench the monetary and diplomatic props of his grandios ...

 Wole Soyinka protagonists and antagonists. The following unvarnished assertion of male superiority by Elesin Oba in the final ...

The “drama of existence”: sources and scope  over-symbolized essences representing the nurturing and healing powers of nature, ...

 Wole Soyinka all of whose flatness and one-dimensionality derive from the extreme idealization of their construction as cent ...

The “drama of existence”: sources and scope  adoration of, and supplication to his presumed salvational powers. These faults ...

 Wole Soyinka Let the dandy’s wardrobe Be as lavish as the shop Of the dealer in brocades It cannot match an elder’s rags  ...

The “drama of existence”: sources and scope  This ability which can be characterized as embodied, performa- tive mimeticism, ...

 Wole Soyinka impersonate Sergeant Burma’s voice, gestural mannerisms and personal idiosyncrasies:  : We were m ...