Wole Soyinka
Subtitle: Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism (Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 22, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521394864
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Plays & playwrights; Political and social views; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Postcolonialism in literature; Politics and literature; African; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Criticism and interpretation; Nigeria; Postcolonialism; Soyinka, Wole
First sentence: In one sense then (there is) a traveling away from its old self towards a cosmopolitan, modern identity while in another sense (there is) a journeying back to regain a threatened past and selfhood.