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Wole Soyinka: politics, poetics and postcolonialism

Biodun Jeyifo
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page xi)
  • Chronology (page xxv)
  • List of abbreviations (page xxxiii)
  • 1 'Representative' and unrepresentable modalities of the self: the gnostic, worldly and radical humanism of Wole Soyinka (page 1)
  • 2 Tragic mythopoesis as postcolonial discourse - critical and theoretical writings (page 41)
  • 3 The "drama of existence": sources and scope (page 83)
  • 4 Ritual, anti-ritual and the festival complex in Soyinka's dramatic parables (page 120)
  • 5 The ambiguous freight of visionary mythopoesis: fictional and nonfictional prose works (page 167)
  • 6 Poetry, versification and the fractured burdens of commitment (page 220)
  • 7 "Things fall together": Wole Soyinka in his Own Write (page 276)
  • Notes (page 289)
  • Bibliography (page 307)
  • Index (page 317)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AFRI 74.4 (2004): 693-695 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3556856
TJ 58.1 (Mar. 2006): 149-150 https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theatre_journal/v058/58.1irobi.html
TDR 50.2 (Summer 2006): 170-171 https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_drama_review/toc/tdr50.2.html
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Published: c2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780521394864 (hardcover)
  • 9780511097843 (ebook)
Series
  • Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature
Subject
  • Literature
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