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Book Synopsis Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka by : Wole Soyinka
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka written by Wole Soyinka and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished scholars analyze the plays, poetry, and prose of Wole Smoyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. Essays trace his career and place his work in the general context of African literature.
Book Synopsis Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka by : James Gibbs
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka written by James Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wole Soyinka by : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Download or read book Wole Soyinka written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by Amistad Press. This book was released on 1994-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Critical Perspectives on Nigerian Literatures by : Bernth Lindfors
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Nigerian Literatures written by Bernth Lindfors and published by Three Continents. This book was released on 1976 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigeria is endowed with oral and written literatures in a variety of languages. This collection focuses on work in the three major vernacular languages - Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa - as well as on the important authors writing in English.
Download or read book Perspectives on Wole Soyinka written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays that examine the aesthetics and the radical politics of one of Africa's greatest writers
Book Synopsis Research on Wole Soyinka by : James Gibbs
Download or read book Research on Wole Soyinka written by James Gibbs and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad introduction to the works of the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian writer and the varieties of criticism they have elicited. There are many different critical methodologies represented, ranging from those concerned with verbal texture (linguistic, structural, and textual approaches) to those focusing on cultural context (historical, mythological, and comparative studies). Most of the articles were originally published in Research in African Literatures. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Perspectives on Wole Soyinka by : Biodun Jeyifo
Download or read book Perspectives on Wole Soyinka written by Biodun Jeyifo and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays that examine the aesthetics and the radical politics of one of Africa's greatest writers
Book Synopsis Critical Perspectives on Christopher Okigbo by : Donatus Ibe Nwoga
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Christopher Okigbo written by Donatus Ibe Nwoga and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays and reviews, both favourable and negative, about the Igbo poet. The book begins with a memorial essay by Chinua Achebe. Other contributors examine the imagery that Okigbo drew from nature, history and politics, exploring the surrealistic qualities of his work.
Book Synopsis Postcolonial Identity in Wole Soyinka by : Mpalive-Hangson Msiska
Download or read book Postcolonial Identity in Wole Soyinka written by Mpalive-Hangson Msiska and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soyinka's representation of postcolonial African identity is re-examined in the light of his major plays, novels and poetry to show how this writer's idiom of cultural authenticity both embraces hybridity and defines itself as specific and particular. For Soyinka, such authenticity involves recovering tradition and inserting it in postcolonial modernity to facilitate transformative moral and political justice. The past can be both our enabling future and our nemesis. In a distinctive approach grounded in cultural studies, Postcolonial Identity in Wole Soyinka locates the artist's intellectual and political concerns within the broader field of postcolonial cultural theory, arguing that, although ostensibly distant from mainstream theory, Soyinka focuses on fundamental questions concerning international culture and political identity formations - the relationship between myth and history / tradition and modernity, and the unresolved tension between power as a force for good or evil. Soyinka's treatment of the relationship between individual selfhood and the various framing social and collective identities, so the book argues, is yet another aspect linking his work to the broader intellectual currents of today. Thus, Soyinka's vision is seen as central to contemporary efforts to grasp the nature of modernity. His works conceptualize identity in ways that promote and modify national perceptions of 'Africanness', rescuing them from the colonial and neocolonial logic of cultural denigration in a manner that fully acknowledges the cosmopolitan and global contexts of African postcolonial formation. Overall, what emerges from the present study is the conviction that, in Soyinka's work, it is the capacity to assume personal and collective agency and the particular choices made by particular subjects at given historical moments that determine the trajectory of change and ultimately the nature of postcolonial existence itself. Postcolonial Identity in Wole Soyinka is a major and imaginative contribution to the study of Wole Soyinka, African literature, and postcolonial cultural theory and one in which writing and creativity stand in fruitful symbiosis with the critical sense. It should appeal to Soyinka scholars, to students of African literature, and to anyone interested in postcolonial and cultural theory.
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.
Download or read book Wole Soyinka written by Anjali Gera Roy and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.
Book Synopsis You Must Set Forth at Dawn by : Wole Soyinka
Download or read book You Must Set Forth at Dawn written by Wole Soyinka and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered homeland. In the tough, humane, and lyrical language that has typified his plays and novels, Soyinka captures the indomitable spirit of Nigeria itself by bringing to life the friends and family who bolstered and inspired him, and by describing the pioneering theater works that defied censure and tradition. Soyinka not only recounts his exile and the terrible reign of General Sani Abacha, but shares vivid memories and playful anecdotes–including his improbable friendship with a prominent Nigerian businessman and the time he smuggled a frozen wildcat into America so that his students could experience a proper Nigerian barbecue. More than a major figure in the world of literature, Wole Soyinka is a courageous voice for human rights, democracy, and freedom. You Must Set Forth at Dawn is an intimate chronicle of his thrilling public life, a meditation on justice and tyranny, and a mesmerizing testament to a ravaged yet hopeful land.
Book Synopsis Critical Perspectives on Chinua Achebe by : Catherine Lynette Innes
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Chinua Achebe written by Catherine Lynette Innes and published by Three Continents. This book was released on 1978 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation by : Bola Dauda
Download or read book Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation written by Bola Dauda and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and expansive biography of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate, and social activist, shows how the author's early years influence his life's work and how his writing, in turn, informs his political engagement. Three sections spanning his life, major texts, and place in history, connect Soyinka's legacy with global issues beyond the borders of his own country, and indeed beyond the African continent. Covering his encounters with the widespread rise of kleptocratic rule and international corporate corruption, his reflection on the human condition of the North-South divide, and the consequences of postcolonialism, this comprehensive biography locates Wole Soyinka as a global figure whose life and works have made him a subject of conversation in the public sphere, as well as one of Africa's most successful and popular authors. Looking at the different forms of Soyinka's work--plays, novels, and memoirs, among others--this volume argues that Soyinka used writing to inform, mobilize, and sometimes incite civil action, in a decades-long attempt at literary social engineering.
Book Synopsis Myth, Literature and the African World by : Wole Soyinka
Download or read book Myth, Literature and the African World written by Wole Soyinka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa.
Book Synopsis A Study Guide for Wole Soyinka's "Civilian and Soldier" by : Gale, Cengage Learning
Download or read book A Study Guide for Wole Soyinka's "Civilian and Soldier" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism by : Reiland Rabaka
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism written by Reiland Rabaka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism provides an international, intersectional, and interdisciplinary overview of, and approach to, Pan-Africanism, making an invaluable contribution to the ongoing evolution of Pan-Africanism and demonstrating its continued significance in the 21st century. The handbook features expert introductions to, and critical explorations of, the most important historic and current subjects, theories, and controversies of Pan-Africanism and the evolution of black internationalism. Pan-Africanism is explored and critically engaged from different disciplinary points of view, emphasizing the multiplicity of perspectives and foregrounding an intersectional approach. The contributors provide erudite discussions of black internationalism, black feminism, African feminism, and queer Pan-Africanism alongside surveys of black nationalism, black consciousness, and Caribbean Pan-Africanism. Chapters on neo-colonialism, decolonization, and Africanization give way to chapters on African social movements, the African Union, and the African Renaissance. Pan-African aesthetics are probed via literature and music, illustrating the black internationalist impulse in myriad continental and diasporan artists’ work. Including 36 chapters by acclaimed established and emerging scholars, the handbook is organized into seven parts, each centered around a comprehensive theme: Intellectual origins, historical evolution, and radical politics of Pan-Africanism Pan-Africanist theories Pan-Africanism in the African diaspora Pan-Africanism in Africa Literary Pan-Africanism Musical Pan-Africanism The contemporary and continued relevance of Pan-Africanism in the 21st century The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism is an indispensable source for scholars and students with research interests in continental and diasporan African history, sociology, politics, economics, and aesthetics. It will also be a very valuable resource for those working in interdisciplinary fields, such as African studies, African American studies, Caribbean studies, decolonial studies, postcolonial studies, women and gender studies, and queer studies.
