WOLE SOYINKA: Politics, Poetics and Postcolonialism

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  It is a great challenge to reconcile these two aspects of Soy ...

 Wole Soyinka the present context, as background for an analysis of what is unique and significant in the plays discussed in ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  to the most secret”; and a montage of modes bringing “the sub ...

 Wole Soyinka circumstance which might be adjudged the instigating factor for the pat- tern that each play presents to us. Si ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  plotters: the Old Man (Demoke’s father) and Agboreko as they ...

 Wole Soyinka be glimpsed in the following dramatic exchange in the tenth chapter of Things Fall Apart. The exchange is based ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  to the occasion illustrious ancestors as symbolic presences o ...

 Wole Soyinka unwelcome dead who have returned to ask questions of the living; the personages of history and the past whom we ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  discussed earlier in this study:  (more to himself) ...

 Wole Soyinka to emphasize that this anthropomorphized nature derives its sanction and operational value within ananimistfram ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  It is within this treatment of forest-nature, this validation ...

 Wole Soyinka For beside this mystic integrity of Nature, this wisdom of the ages, Soyinka also erects the remorseless exacti ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  thought in history in the face of the relentless weight of ne ...

 Wole Soyinka “confession” of the psychological vulnerabilities and professional jeal- ousies which prompted him to pluck his ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  : We are the dried leaves, impaled on one-eyed brooms. ...

 Wole Soyinka that these are just a few selected details from the dense overflow of ideas, tropes and symbols in the exchange ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  catch himself passing it instantly to Demoke who has come run ...

 Wole Soyinka local Nigerian and African traditions and realities. Both plays also have all the hallmarks of modern, avant-ga ...

Dramatic parables: ritual, anti-ritual, the “festival complex”  barbarisms of (dis)organized social life, the play’s departur ...

 Wole Soyinka (Iya Agba, Iya Mate, Si Bero and, ambiguously, the Old Man) and who have a keen, unromantic knowledge of evil a ...