Research Catalog

Title

Perspectives on Wole Soyinka : freedom and complexity / edited by Biodun Jeyifo.

Publication

Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Soyinka, Wole.
• Jeyifo, Biodun, 1946-

Description

xxii, 242 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Soyinka, Wole > Interviews
• Authors, Nigerian > 20th century > Interviews
• Nigeria > In literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Tradition and the Yoruba writer : D. O. Fagunwa, Amos Tutuola, and Wole Soyinka / Abiola Irele -- Poetics and the mythic imagination / Stanley Macebuh -- The fox's dance : the staging of Soyinka's plays / Annemarie Heywood / Complexity of freedom / Wilson Harris -- Being, the will, and the semantics of death / Henry Louis Gates -- Blood and wine : tragic ritual from Aeschylus to Soyinka / Philip Brockbank -- Soyinka and his radical critics : a review / Brian Crow -- Wole Soyinka and the tropes of disalienation / Biodun Jeyifo -- Wole Soyinka and Heine Muller : different cultural contexts, similar approaches / Joachim Fiebach -- Periodic embodiments : a ubiquitous trope in African men's writing / Florence Stratton -- Myth, literature, and the African world / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Wole Soyinka and the living dramatist : a playwright's encounter with the drama of Wole Soyinka / Femi Osofisan -- Wole Soyinka and the Atunda ideal : a reading of Soyinka's poetry / Nyi Osundare -- Space of transformations : theory, myth, and ritual in the work of Wole Soyinka / Ato Quayson.

Call Number

Sc E 01-916

ISBN

• 157806337X (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1578063388 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

00049526

OCLC

45137570

Title

Perspectives on Wole Soyinka : freedom and complexity / edited by Biodun Jeyifo.

Imprint

Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, 2001.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Soyinka, Wole.

Jeyifo, Biodun, 1946-

Research Call Number

Sc E 01-916