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Author | : Adewale Maja-Pearce |
Publisher | : Heinemann International Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
Adewale Maja-Pearce analyzes contemporary African politics and society with absolute candor in these essays. Drawing on first-hand observations, and on conversations with journalists, intellectuals, students, artists, taxi drivers, and businessmen, he exposes the abuse of human rights by African governments, and celebrates the courage of those individuals who stand up to tyranny.
Author | : Wole Oguntokun |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Nigeria |
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Author | : James Gibbs |
Publisher | : Africa World Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : 9780865432192 |
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
Author | : Mpalive-Hangson Msiska |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004358129 |
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.
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Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Authors, Nigerian |
ISBN | : 9781617032530 |
Essays that examine the aesthetics and the radical politics of one of Africa's greatest writers
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 | : Wole Soyinka |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307432904 |
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.
Author | : Wole Soyinka |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307430820 |
In this new book developed from the prestigious Reith Lectures, Nobel Prize—winning author Wole Soyinka, a courageous advocate for human rights around the world, considers fear as the dominant theme in world politics. Decades ago, the idea of collective fear had a tangible face: the atom bomb. Today our shared anxiety has become far more complex and insidious, arising from tyranny, terrorism, and the invisible power of the “quasi state.” As Wole Soyinka suggests, the climate of fear that has enveloped the world was sparked long before September 11, 2001. Rather, it can be traced to 1989, when a passenger plane was brought down by terrorists over the Republic of Niger. From Niger to lower Manhattan to Madrid, this invisible threat has erased distinctions between citizens and soldiers; we’re all potential targets now. In this seminal work, Soyinka explores the implications of this climate of fear: the conflict between power and freedom, the motives behind unthinkable acts of violence, and the meaning of human dignity. Fascinating and disturbing, Climate of Fear is a brilliant and defining work for our age.
Author | : Anthony B. Pinn |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2001-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0814766722 |
This anthology focuses attention on the role of humanism in African American liberation struggles. The influence of humanist thought on prominent figures is emphasized, as is its impact on the Abolitionist, civil rights, and Black Power movements. Twenty-one chapters discuss history, culture, politics, personal accounts, and observations from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They include writings by Duchess Harris, Herbert Aptheker, Daniel Payne, Norm Allen, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, and Huey Newton. c. Book News Inc.
Author | : Biodun Jeyifo |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2003-11-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1139439081 |
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.