Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
Subtitle: Freedom And Complexity
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: July 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781578069309
Subjects: Drama texts, plays; Plays & playwrights; Literary Criticism; Plays / Drama; African; Drama; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: In this essay, Abiola Irele, the doyen of African and Africanist literary scholars, locates the sources of the underlying sensibilities at work in Soyinka's writings in a Yoruba literary tradition whose major precursors, prior to Soyinka, are the late D.O. Fagunwa and Amos Tutuola.