Biodun Jeyifo

Wole Soyinka

Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism
Herausgeber: Irele, Abiola

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 639g
• ISBN-13: 9780521394864
• ISBN-10: 0521394864
• Artikelnr.: 21367768

Autorenporträt

Biodun Jeyifo is Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of The Popular Travelling Theatre of Nigeria (1984) and The Truthful Lie: Essays in a Radical Sociology of African Drama (1985). He has written essays and monographs on Anglophone African and Caribbean literatures, Marxist cultural theory and colonial and postcolonial studies and has also edited several volumes on African drama and critical discourse.

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology
1. 'Representative' and unrepresentable modalities of the self: the Gnostic, worldly and radical humanism of Wole Soyinka
2. Tragic mythopoesis as postcolonial discourse - critical and theoretical writings
3. The 'drama of existence': sources and scope
4. Ritual, anti-ritual and the festival complex in Soyinka's dramatic parables
5. The ambiguous freight of visionary mythopoesis
fictional and nonfictional prose works
6. Poetry, versification and the fractured burdens of commitment
7. 'Things fall together': Wole Soyinka in his own write.