“No Danger No Delay”
Wole Soyinka and the Perils of Driving
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23716180 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lindsey B Green-Simms (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Publisher | University of Minnesota Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5749/minnesota/9781517901141.003.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W2766349738 |
| ISBN | 9781517901141 |
| Language | EN |
Chapter 2 focuses on the tragedy of motorcar accidents through a close reading of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka’s 1965 post-independence play The Road about Nigerian lorry drivers living on the urban periphery . This chapter reads the road as a Bakhtinian chronotope – a space-time matrix – that includes various lived times of postcoloniality.
Art · Chronotope · Independence (probability theory) · Linguistics · Literature · Mythology · Reading (process) · Tragedy (event) · History · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Samuel Beckett and Modernism · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |