Notes to pages– “Neo-Tarzanism: the Poetics of Pseudo-Tradition,” in Soyinka,Art, Dialogue
and Outrage.
Joachim Fiebach, “Wole Soyinka and Heine Muller: Different Cultural Con-
texts, Similar Approaches,” in Jeyifo,Perspectives on Wole Soyinka,.
“Soyinka in Zimbabwe: A Question and Answer Session,” in Jeyifo,Conver-
sations with Wole Soyinka,.
There is an account of this event, together with Soyinka’s role in it, inWest
Africa, April,.
Ibid.
“BAI” – “Battle Against Indiscipline” – is Soyinka’s satiric appropriation of
“WAI” – “War Against Indiscipline” – the military regime’s national project
to rid Nigeria of “indiscipline,” even as stories and reports circulated of
great acts of corrupt abuse of office, mismanagement of public funds and
bureaucratic inefficiency among the military and civilian scions of the
regime.
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Philip Brockbank, “Blood and Wine: Tragic Ritual from Aeschylus to
Soyinka,”Shakespeare Survey,no.().
Brian Crow, “Wole Soyinka and the Nigerian Theatre of Ritual Vision,”
in Brian Crow (with Chris Banfield),An Introduction to Postcolonial Theatre,
Cambridge University Press,.
Oyin Ogunba,The Movement of Transition: A Study of the Plays of Wole Soyinka,
Ibadan University Press,; Stephan Larsen,A Writer and his Gods: A Study of
the Importance of Myths and Religious Ideas to the Writings of Wole Soyinka, University
of Stockholm Department of History of Literature,; Ketu Katrak,Wo l e
Soyinka and Modern Tragedy: A Study of Dramatic Theory and Practice, Westport,
CO: Greenwood Press,; Mary David,Wole Soyinka: A Quest for Renewal;
Derek Wright,Wole Soyinka Revisited; Philip Brockbank, “Blood and Wine,”
Brian Crow, “Wole Soyinka and the Nigerian Theatre of Ritual Vision,”
in Crow,An Introduction;Ato Quayson, “The Space of Transformations:
Theory, Myth and Ritual in the Work of Wole Soyinka,” in Jeyifo (ed.)
Perspectives on Wole Soyinka;Adebayo Williams, “Ritual as Social Symbolism:
Cultural Death and the King’s Horseman,” in Oyin Ogunba (ed.),Soyinka:
A Collection of Critical Essays, Ibadan, Nigeria: Syndicated Communications,
; Isidore Okpewho, “Soyinka, Euripides, and the Anxiety of Empire,”
Research in African Literatures,vol.,no.(Winter),–.
Wright,Wole Soyinka Revisited,–.
Rene Girard, Violence and the Sacred (translated by Patrick Gregory),
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,.
“The Lysistrata of Aristophanes” (Aristophanes), “Shakespeare and the
Living Dramatist” (Shakespeare), “Drama and the Idiom of Liberation”
(Edward Albee), and “Between Self and System” (Brecht, Mnouchkine and