Index
and the “pharmakon,”
on poetic solipsism of N ́egritude,
political activism, xiv,
radical break in critical thought of,–
resistance and oppositionality in works
of,
and the Romantics,–
ritual festivity in plays of,
ritual matrix as interpretive construct in
critical thought,–
ritual problematic in plays of,–
scope of scholarly works on, xi–xii
seclusion as spiritual
enhancement,–
second phase of critical thought,–,
–
self-writing in works of,–
on social malaise of village life in colonial
Africa,
solitary confinement in prison,
as a student in Britain,
and the sublime, xviii, xx
and the Symbolists,
taking political and artistic risks,–
thematic patterns in dramatic works
of,–
third phase of critical thought,,–
tragic mythopoesis in works of,–
and transnational capitalism,
use of language in prose works of,–
version of the leftist script of Nigerian crisis
of–,–
and violence,–
and voluntarism,
“And after the Narcissist?,”–
“Climates of Art,”–
“The Credo of Being and
Nothingness,”–
“The Critic and Society,”
“Drama and the Idioms of Liberation,”
“The External Encounter,”–
“The Fourth Stage,”,–,
“From a Common Black Cloth,”–
“Neo-Tarzanism and the Poetics of
Pseudo-tradition,”
“New Frontiers for Old,”–
Nobel lecture,,
“Theatre in Traditional African
Societies,”–,
“Towards a True Theatre,”–
“The Writer in a Modern African
State,”–,–,
Prose Works:
Ak ́ e,–,,,–,
Art, Dialogue and Outrage, xiv, xxi
The Burden of Memory and the Muse of
Forgiveness,–
Ibadan,,,,–
The Interpreters,,,,,,,,
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Isara,–
The Man Died,,,–,
Myth and Literature and the African World,,
,–,
The Open Sore of a Continent,–
Season of Anomy,,,–,–
Plays:
The Bacchae of Euripides,,,–
The Beatification of Area Boy,,
Before the Blackout,
A Dance of the Forests,,,,,,
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Death and the King’s Horseman,,,,
,–,,,
From Zia with Love,,,,–
The Invention,
Kongi’s Harvest,,–,–,
The Lion and the Jewel,,–
Madmen and Specialists,,–,,,
,–,–,,,
Opera Wonyosi,,
APlayofGiants,–
Requiem for a Futurologist,
The Road,,,,,–,–,,
–,–,,
A Scourge of Hyacinths,
The Strong Breed,
The Swamp Dwellers,
Poetry:
Idanre and Other Poems,–,–
Mandela’s Earth,–
Ogun Abibiman,–
Outsiders,–
A Shuttle in the Crypt,–
“Telephone Conversation,”
Film:
“Blues for a Prodigal,”
St. John Perse,
Stratton, Florence,
Sublime, the,–,
Sukarno, Achmed, xvi
Sundiata epic,
Sutherland, Efua, xvii,
Swift, Jonathan,(Gulliver’s Travels)
Toyo, Eskor,
Transition magazine, xii, xv
transnational capitalism,
Tutuola, Amos,,