WOLE SOYINKA: Politics, Poetics and Postcolonialism

The “drama of existence”: sources and scope  Thus, to an attentive reader or audience of the play, Samson’s terrified self-aw ...

 Wole Soyinka life that he so extensively appropriates.Madmen and Specialistsand from Zia with Loveare particularly illustrat ...

The “drama of existence”: sources and scope  tyrants, charlatans and hypocrites of Soyinka’s more ferocious satires, Lakunle ...

 Wole Soyinka between different generations and between men and women. What gives a trenchant, and often uproarious edge to t ...

The “drama of existence”: sources and scope  reference are brought into what, on the surface, seems a light romantic comedy. ...

 Wole Soyinka This is a false rhetoric of modernization not only on account of its utter callowness and naivet ́e, but also b ...

The “drama of existence”: sources and scope  its increasing separation from nature and its inculcation of a deadening uniform ...

 Wole Soyinka the execution of the men as “judicial murder.” Equally strong condem- nations were made by influential public f ...

The “drama of existence”: sources and scope  sign, “Abandon Shame All Who Enter Here” hangs over the cell-bars where these re ...

 Wole Soyinka authorized,decreedlanguages and culture of impunity of the state, the state of drunken power and pomp, of obses ...

The “drama of existence”: sources and scope  The way we deal with mavericks he’ll scream for human rights So his club was bur ...

 Wole Soyinka infestation of the creeks and lagoons of the Lagos metropolitan area by a species of wild and aggressive water ...

The “drama of existence”: sources and scope  : Is that my fault? They do business with me all the time, they and their ti ...

 Wole Soyinka  : Who? What little fellow? : Esu. Small but potent. (Unveils his Esu shrine) You know his ori ...

The “drama of existence”: sources and scope  in a Modern African State,” “And After the Narcissist?,” “Climates of Art” and “ ...

  Ritual, anti-ritual and the festival complex in Soyinka’s dramatic parables In the selection of pretenders, a new ‘kin ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  celebrate the glorious past and hopeful future of the assembl ...

 Wole Soyinka action, is elaborately constructed around festive, ritual or carnivalesque performance modes; moreover,The Road ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  mixing genres beyond their normative forms and conventions, b ...

 Wole Soyinka festivals today, they survive precariously under the combined weight of repressive Christian proselytization, t ...