Notes to pages– exactions by way of causing fatal accidents, fevers and even insanity among
the workers wreaking the “wound” of progress on the forests.
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Lucy Mair,New Nations, University of Chicago Press,.
Ronald Bryden, “The Asphalt God,” in Gibbs,Critical Perspectives on Wole
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Joachim Fiebach, “Wole Soyinka and Heine Muller: Different Cultural Con-
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Biodun Jeyifo, “The Hidden Class War inThe Road,” inThe Truthful Lie:
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For an instance of this, see Derek Wright,Wole Soyinka Revisited,–.
Albert Bates Lord,The Singer of Tales, Stephen Mitchell and Gregory Nagy,
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Olakunle George, “Cultural Criticism in Wole Soyinka’sDeath and the King’s
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Longinus in Bernard F. Dukore (ed.),Dramatic Theory and Criticism: Greeks to
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On the postmodernist conception of the sublime, see, among a vast body
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Francois Courtineet al.,Of the Sublime: Presence in Question, Albany, NY: SUNY
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Paul Gilroy,The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, Cambridge,
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Nothing shows the operation of this tacit regulative norm more than a com-
parison of critical attitudes towards linguistic exuberance in Yoruba and