Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
Subtitle: freedom and complexity
By: edited by Biodun Jeyifo.
Contributors: Jeyifo, Biodun, 1946-
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Soyinka, Wole -- Criticism and interpretation.; Nigeria -- In literature.
Description: "Nearly every major contemporary school of critical theory is represented here - from analytic philosophy to reconstructed Marxism, from poststructuralism to postcoloniality, and from feminism to recuperated phenomenology. This diversity of theoretical interests and interpretive approaches unites Soyinka's art with his political activism." "Gathered here in this collection, the essays simultaneously showcase Soyinka's postcolonial politics and his literary aestheticism. They reveal the irony that the downtrodden peoples whom Soyinka champions are those who cannot read his stirring books or see his compelling dramas." "This volume will afford Soyinka's readers a heightened sense of the wit, humor, and eloquence of this leading writer-activist of Africa and the English-speaking world."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Tradition and the Yoruba Writer; title: D. O. Fagunwa, Amos Tutuola, and; title: Wole Soyinka 3; title: Abiola Irele; title: Poetics and the Mythic Imagination 27; title: Stanley Macebuh; title: The Fox's Dance; title: The Staging of Soyinka's Plays 41; title: Annemarie Heywood; title: The Complexity of Freedom SI; title: Wilson Harris; title: Being, the Will, and the Semantics of Death 62; title: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; title: Blood and Wine; title: Tragic Ritual from Aeschylus to Soyinka 77; title: Philip Brockbank; title: Soyinka and His Radical Critics; title: A Review 91; title: Brian Crow; title: Wole Soyinka and the Tropes of Disalienation 104; title: Biodun Jeyfo; title: Wole Soyinka and Heine Muller; title: Different Cultural Contexts, Similar Approaches 128; title: Joachim Fiebach; title: Periodic Embodiments; title: A Ubiquitous Trope in African Men's Writing 140; title: Florence Stratton; title: Myth, Literature, and the African World 157; title: Kwame Anthony Appiah; title: Wole Soyinka and the Living Dramatist; title: A Playwright's Encounter with the Drama of; title: Wole Soyinka 172; title: Femi Osofisan; title: Wole Soyinka and the Atunda Ideal; title: A Reading of Soyinka's Poetry 187; title: Niyi Osundare; title: The Space of Transformations; title: Theory, Myth, and Ritual in the Work of; title: Wole Soyinka 201; title: Ato Quayson.