WOLE SOYINKA: Politics, Poetics and Postcolonialism

 Notes to pages–

influential monograph,Violence and the Sacred. Among Nigerian writers of a

slightly younger generation, Festus Iyayi, Femi Osofisan and Niyi Osundare

have also been deeply marked by this Soyinkan obsession with violence, the

direct, repressive violence of the rulers, and the far more lethal violence

inthe political economy and social relations of dispossession, immiseration

and disenfranchisement. For Georges Sorel, see hisReflections on Violence(au-

thorized translation by T.E. Hulme), New York: B.W. Huebsch,.For

Fanon, see the chapter “Concerning Violence” in hisTheWretchedofthe

Earth(translated by Constance Farrington), New York: Grove Press,.

Fo r Re n ́e Girard, see hisViolence and the Sacred, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins

University Press,.