Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
Subtitle: Freedom and Complexity
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781578063352
Subjects: Plays / Drama; Literary Criticism; Soyinka, Wole - Prose & Criticism; Literary Collections; Soyinka, Wole; Nigeria; Drama; African; Essays; Criticism and interpretation; In literature
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.