Topper Topper
Biographic Data
| ID | 5604259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Topper Topper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Topper |
| FAMILY NAME | Topper |
| SIGNATURE | TÖPPER T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Sacrificial Foundation of Modernity in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman
Critics largely interpret Death and the King's Horseman as a representation of a particular cultural trauma: African secularization under colonial modernity. If, however, the nation-state presupposes a political theology, then colonization is not secularization, but a transition into a new order of the sacred. I argue that Horseman stages this process as a cosmological trauma emerging through a transfiguration of sacrifice. As an indigenous death…
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Requiem
The Sacrificial Foundation of Modernity in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman
Critics largely interpret Death and the King's Horseman as a representation of a particular cultural trauma: African secularization under colonial modernity. If, however, the nation-state presupposes a political theology, then colonization is not secularization, but a transition into a new order of the sacred. I argue that Horseman stages this process as a cosmological trauma emerging through a transfiguration of sacrifice. As an indigenous death…
Art (2 works) · Colonialism (1 work) · Drama (1 work) · History (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Literature (1 work) · Modernity (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Political science (1 work) · Political theology (1 work)