The Language of Soyinka's A Shuttle in the Crypt
Author | : Mabel Osakwe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Yoruba literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mabel Osakwe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Yoruba literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wole Soyinka |
Publisher | : Hill & Wang |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wole Soyinka |
Publisher | : Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Nigeria |
ISBN | : 9780914478492 |
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.
Author | : Ofoego, Obioma |
Publisher | : Kwara State University Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2018-03-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 978539204X |
This book explores in depth the uses of language in Wole Soyinka’s plays, poetry and prose. The author approaches Soyinka’s works through meticulous close readings, giving the writer his due by capturing the complexities, ambiguities, and nuances of his language.
Author | : Wole Soyinka |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
This collection brings together Idanre and Other Poems and A Shuttle in the Crypt, two powerful and distinctive volumes of the early poetry of Nobel Prize laureate and Nigerian exile Wole Soyinka. Taken has a whole, Soyinka's early poetry may be viewed as a valiant effort to reconcile the mysterious legacy of the old with the often harsh realities of an entire continent's abrupt entry into the twentieth century.
Author | : Carmen Bugan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2021-06-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192638777 |
A first-hand account of the creative process that engages with the language of oppression and with politics in our time. How does the poet become attuned to the language of the world's upheaval? How does one talk insightfully about suffering, without creating more of it? What is freedom in language and how does the poet who has endured political oppression write himself or herself free? What is literary testimony? Poetry and the Language of Oppression is a consideration of the creative process that rests on the conviction that poetry is of help in moments of public duress, providing an illumination of life and a healing language. Oppression, repression, expression, as well as their tools (prison, surveillance, gestures in language) have been with us in various forms throughout history, and this volume represents a particular aspect of these conditions of our humanity as they play out in our time, providing another instance of the communion, and sometimes confrontation, with the language that makes us human.
Author | : Wole Soyinka |
Publisher | : Methuen Publishing |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
This volume contains poems from 1966 to 1989. A Shuttle in the Crypt, written while Soyinka was in prison, maps out the course trodden by a mind under solitary confinement. Idanre, a poem on the creation myth of Ogun, was written for the Commonwealth Arts Festival, while Mandela's Earth presents a selection of poems that are of searing urgency.
Author | : Randall Horton |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 77 |
Release | : 2020-09-08 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0813179904 |
"Forgive state poet #289-128 / for not scribbling illusions / of trickery as if timeless hell / could be captured by stanzas / alliteration or slant rhyme," remarks the speaker, Maryland Department of Corrections prisoner {#289-128}, early in this haunting collection. Three sections—{#289-128} Property of the State, {#289-128} Poet-in-Residence (Cell 23), and {#289-128} Poet in New York—frame the countless ways in which the narrator's body and life are socially and legally rendered by the state even as the act of poetry helps him reclaim an identity during imprisonment. These poems address the prison industrial complex, the carceral state, the criminal justice system, racism, violence, love, resilience, hope, and despair while exploring the idea of freedom in a cell. In the tradition of Dennis Brutus's Letters to Martha, Wole Soyinka's A Shuttle in the Crypt, and Etheridge Knight's The Essential Etheridge Knight, {#289-128} challenges the language of incarceration—especially the ways in which it reinforces stigmas and stereotypes. Though {#289-128} refuses to be defined as a felon, this collection viscerally details the dehumanizing effects of prison, which linger long after release. It also illuminates the ways in which we all are relegated to cells or boundaries, whether we want to acknowledge it or not.