The Interpreters Ritual Violence And Social Regeneration In The Writing Of Wole Soyinka

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The Interpreters: Ritual, Violence, and Social Regeneration in the Writing of Wole Soyinka

Author : Bello, Hakeem
Publisher : Kraft Books
ISBN 13 : 9789181957
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book The Interpreters: Ritual, Violence, and Social Regeneration in the Writing of Wole Soyinka written by Bello, Hakeem and published by Kraft Books. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concern for social regeneration stands as the factor that animates Soyinka's life-long involvement in social and political activism, leading to his incarceration for two years during the civil war, and his having to flee into exile during the period of Sani Abacha's dictatorship. Soyinka expresses this same concern for social regeneration in his writings, using different metaphors. The focus of this work lies in the exploration of the articulations of social regeneration in the works of Wole Soyinka. The first part focuses on the dramatic works, and the argument of the author is that the metaphor adopted by Africa's foremost playwright in articulating his vision of social regeneration is that of ritual. Attention shifts in part two to Soyinka's two novels; and here, Bello goes to the roots of Yoruba metaphysics to fetch a metaphor which describes a creature with contradictory personality; which at once is committed to the regeneration of the social order while at the same time retaining a vindictive, vengeful nature.

China, India and the Eastern World

Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847011462
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book China, India and the Eastern World written by Martin Banham and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernth Lindfors, Ira Aldridge: The Last Years, 1855-1867 -- Paul Schauert, Staging Ghana: Artistry & nationalism in state dance ensembles -- Maëline Le Lay, 'La parole construit le pays': Théâtre, langues et didactisme au Katanga (République Démocratique du Congo) -- Benita Brown, Dannabang Kuwabong & Christopher Olsen, Myth Performance in the African Diasporas: Ritual, theater, and dance -- S.A. Kafewo, T.J. Iorapuu & E.S. Dandaura (eds), Theatre Unbound: Reflections on Theatre for Development and Social Change - A festschrift in honour of Oga Steve Abah -- Hakeem Bello, The Interpreters: Ritual, Violence and Social Regeneration in the Writing of Wole Soyinka -- Five plays: Ekpe Inyang, The Swamps -- Augustine Brempong, The King's Wages -- Denja Abdullahi, Death and the King's Grey Hair and Other Plays -- Books received and noted

Postcolonial Literatures in the Local Literary Marketplace

Author : Jenni Ramone
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 1137569344
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Literatures in the Local Literary Marketplace written by Jenni Ramone and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks what reading means in India, Nigeria, the UK, and Cuba, through close readings of literary texts from postcolonial, spatial, architectural, cartographic, materialist, trauma, and gender perspectives. It contextualises these close readings through new interpretations of local literary marketplaces to assert the significance of local, not global meanings. The book offers longer case studies on novels that stage important reading moments: Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps (1953), Leonardo Padura’s Adios, Hemingway (2001), Tabish Khair’s Filming (2007), Chibundhu Onuzo’s Welcome to Lagos (2017), and Zadie Smith’s Swing Time (2016). Chapters argue that while India’s literary market was disrupted by Partition, literature offers a means of moving beyond trauma; in post-Revolutionary Cuba, the Special Period led to exploitation of Cuban literary culture, resulting in texts that foreground reading spaces; in Nigeria, the market hosts meeting, negotiation, reflection, and trade, including the writer’s trade; while Black consciousness bookshops and writing in Britain operated to challenge the UK literary market, a project still underway. This book is a vindication of reading, and of the resistant power and creative potential of local literary marketplaces. It insists on ‘located reading’, enabling close reading of world literatures sited in their local materialities.

Forging Ogun's Presence in a Plastic Society. A Look at Wole Soyinka's 'The Interpreters'

Author : Wazha Lopang
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668341001
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Forging Ogun's Presence in a Plastic Society. A Look at Wole Soyinka's 'The Interpreters' written by Wazha Lopang and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Literature - Africa, University of Botswana, language: English, abstract: The aim of this article is two-fold. It will analyse how Ogun principles in The Interpreters have been compromised and discarded by individuals transformed by an alien culture. The article will also describe and evaluate the ways in which the Ogun presence manifests itself in a society that is reluctant to look at the past in order to forge a path of self-discovery. In the postmodern age, the concept of identity and purpose calls for a psychological weaning from imported cultures with their hegemonic footprints. The absorption of an alien culture is at times not selectively done by members of these African societies. In effect, they find themselves technologically propelled into an environment that transforms them from the inside and spreads like a cancer.

A Dance of the Forest

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book A Dance of the Forest written by Wole Soyinka and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Death and the King's Horseman

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 : 9781474260763
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Death and the King's Horseman written by Wole Soyinka and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elesin Oba, the King's Horseman, has a single destiny. When the King dies, he must commit ritual suicide and lead his King's favourite horse and dog through the passage to the world of the ancestors. A British Colonial Officer, Pilkings, intervenes to prevent the death and arrests Elesin. The play is a set text for NEAB GCSE, NEAB A Level and NEAB A/S Level. 'A masterpiece of 20th century drama' - Guardian "A transfixing work of modern world drama" (Independent); "clearly a masterpiece. . . he achieves the full impact of Greek tragedy" (Irving Wardle, Independent on Sunday); "the action of the play is as inevitable and eloquent as in Antigone: a clash of values and cultures so fundamental that tragedy issues: a tragedy for each individual, each tribe" (Michael Schmidt, Daily Telegraph)

The Interpreters

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Interpreters written by Wole Soyinka and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Camwood on the Leaves

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : London : Eyre Methuen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Camwood on the Leaves written by Wole Soyinka and published by London : Eyre Methuen. This book was released on 1973 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the tensions of adolescent awakening set against the internal conflict of generations in a modern Yoruba family, against pressures of European Christianity on the traditional cultural patterns of West African life.

Wole Soyinka

Author : Biodun Jeyifo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139439081
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Wole Soyinka written by Biodun Jeyifo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biodun Jeyifo examines the connections between the innovative and influential writings of Wole Soyinka and his radical political activism. Jeyifo carries out detailed analyses of Soyinka's most ambitious works, relating them to the controversies generated by Soyinka's use of literature and theatre for radical political purposes. He gives a fascinating account of the profound but paradoxical affinities and misgivings Soyinka has felt about the significance of the avant-garde movements of the twentieth century. Jeyifo also explores Soyinka's works with regard to the impact on his artistic sensibilities of the pervasiveness of representational ambiguity and linguistic exuberance in Yoruba culture. The analyses and evaluations of this study are presented in the context of Soyinka's sustained engagement with the violence of collective experience in post-independence, postcolonial Africa and the developing world. No existing study of Soyinka's works and career has attempted such a systematic investigation of their complex relationship to politics.

The Bacchae of Euripides

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393325836
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book The Bacchae of Euripides written by Wole Soyinka and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1974 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wholly fresh interpretation of the timeless play by a Nobel Prize-winning author.

The Road

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Road written by Wole Soyinka and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although somber in nature, this play contains many scenes that demonstrate Soyinka's great gift for comic dialogue.

Woman, Native, Other

Author : Trinh T. Minh-Ha
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253205032
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Woman, Native, Other written by Trinh T. Minh-Ha and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . methodologically innovative . . . precise and perceptive and conscious . . . " —Text and Performance Quarterly "Woman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing the boundaries of these disciplines further. It is one of the very few theoretical attempts to grapple with the writings of women of color." —Chandra Talpade Mohanty "The idea of Trinh T. Minh-ha is as powerful as her films . . . formidable . . . " —Village Voice " . . . its very forms invite the reader to participate in the effort to understand how language structures lived possibilities." —Artpaper "Highly recommended for anyone struggling to understand voices and experiences of those 'we' label 'other'." —Religious Studies Review Audio book narrated by Betty Miller. Produced by Speechki in 2021.

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

Author : Rob Nixon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067424799X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor written by Rob Nixon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of "slow violence" to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle-driven messaging that impels public activism today. Slow violence, because it is so readily ignored by a hard-charging capitalism, exacerbates the vulnerability of ecosystems and of people who are poor, disempowered, and often involuntarily displaced, while fueling social conflicts that arise from desperation as life-sustaining conditions erode. In a book of extraordinary scope, Nixon examines a cluster of writer-activists affiliated with the environmentalism of the poor in the global South. By approaching environmental justice literature from this transnational perspective, he exposes the limitations of the national and local frames that dominate environmental writing. And by skillfully illuminating the strategies these writer-activists deploy to give dramatic visibility to environmental emergencies, Nixon invites his readers to engage with some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

Culture and Imperialism

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307829650
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Imperialism written by Edward W. Said and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.

Investing in Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue

Author : Unesco
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 : 9231040774
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Investing in Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue written by Unesco and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report analyses all aspects of cultural diversity, which has emerged as a key concern of the international community in recent decades, and maps out new approaches to monitoring and shaping the changes that are taking place. It highlights, in particular, the interrelated challenges of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue and the way in which strong homogenizing forces are matched by persistent diversifying trends. The report proposes a series of ten policy-oriented recommendations, to the attention of States, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, international and regional bodies, national institutions and the private sector on how to invest in cultural diversity. Emphasizing the importance of cultural diversity in different areas (languages, education, communication and new media development, and creativity and the marketplace) based on data and examples collected from around the world, the report is also intended for the general public. It proposes a coherent vision of cultural diversity and clarifies how, far from being a threat, it can become beneficial to the action of the international community.

Africans

Author : John Iliffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107198321
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Africans written by John Iliffe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations.

Mortal Doubt

Author : Anthony W. Fontes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520969596
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Mortal Doubt written by Anthony W. Fontes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fear of violent crime dominates Guatemala City. In the midst of unprecedented levels of postwar violence, Guatemalans struggle to fathom the myriad forces that have made life in this city so deeply insecure. Born out of histories of state terror, migration, and US deportation, maras (transnational gangs) have become the face of this new era of violence. They are brutal organizations engaged in extortion, contract killings, and the drug trade, and yet they have also become essential to the emergence of a certain kind of social order. Drawing on years of fieldwork inside prisons, police precincts, and gang-dominated neighborhoods, Anthony W. Fontes demonstrates how gang violence has become indissoluble from contemporary social imaginaries and how these gangs provide cover for a host of other criminal actors. Ethnographically rich and unflinchingly critical, Mortal Doubt illuminates the maras’ role in making and mooring collective terror in Guatemala City while tracing the ties that bind this violence to those residing in far safer environs.