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African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora, New York: Oxford
University Press,,–.
Gibbs,Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka. Significantly, the only play of Soyinka
to have received publication as a textbeforeany stage performance of it is
Death and the King’s Horseman.
Among Soyinka’s more notable acting credits are his playing of Forest Head
in his own staging ofA Dance of the Forestsfor the Nigerian Independence
celebrations in; his playing of Kongi in the filming ofKongi’s Harvest
in; and his playing of the role of Patrice Lumumba in Paris in a
French-language version of Conor Cruise O’Brien’sMurderous Angelsin
.
“Interview with John Agetua,” in Biodun Jeyifo (ed.),Conversations with Wole
Soyinka, Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi,,–.
See Immanuel Wallerstein,Africa and the Politics of Unity: An Analysis of a
Contemporary Social Movement, New York: Vintage Books,.
See Femi Osofisan, “Wole Soyinka and a Living Dramatist: A Playwright’s
Encounter with Soyinka’s Drama,” in Maja-Pearce (ed.),Wole Soyinka: An
Appraisal.
Annemarie Heywood, “The Fox’s Dance: the Staging of Soyinka’s Plays,”
in Gibbs,Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka.
Eldred Jones,The Writings of Wole Soyinka, London: Heinemann,; Gerald
Moore,Wole Soyinka, London: Evans,; Adrian Roscoe,Mother Is Gold: A
Study of West African Literature, Cambridge University Press,.
In a private conversation with the author of this study.
I owe this perception of echoes of the John the Baptist-Salome story to Abiola
Irele. This resonance is apparently so obvious that to date, it has simply gone
unremarked in all critical and scholarly commentary onKongi’s Harvest.
Michel Foucault,Language, Counter-Memory, Practice, Ithaca, NY: Cornell Uni-
versity Press,, especially Part Three, “Practice, Knowledge and Power”;
Vaclav Havel,The Power of the Powerless, John Keane (ed.), Armonk, NY: M.E.
Sharpe,.
For a study of this aspect of Genet’s dramaturgy, see Laura Oswald,Jean
Genet and the Semiotics of Performance, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University
Press,.
Mary David,Wole Soyinka: A Quest for Renewal, Madras, India: B.I. Publica-
tions,.
Among these are Florence Stratton, “Periodic Embodiments: A Ubiquitous
Trope in African Men’s Writing,” Molara Ogundipe, “The Representation
of Women: the Example of Soyinka’sAk ́e,” in Molara Ogundipe-Leslie,
Re-creating Ourselves: African Women and Critical Transformations, Trenton, NJ:
Africa World Press,; and Carole Boyce Davis, “Maidens, Mistresses
and Matrons: Feminine Images in Selected Soyinka Works,” inNgambika:
Studies of Women in African Literature, Ann Adams Graves and Carole Boyce
Davis (eds), Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press,.