Wole Soyinka
Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2590405 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephanie Newell (0009-0001-0662-4493, University of Sussex) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 693 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism, Abiola Irele, 2004 |
| Venue | Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3556856 |
| OpenAlex | W1488860098 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
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Art · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Postcolonialism (international relations · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Diaspora · Theatre and Performance Studies
The Superman as Master Narrative in Wole Soyinka’s Season of Anomy
Fracture and suture
The African Woman as a Symbol of her Continent in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel
Cultural Imperialism and the Struggle over Kiswahili as the Medium of Instruction in Tanzania
Theories of African Poetry
From Colonial to Postcolonial Mythologies—Influence on Igbo Ethnic Identity
Black-skinned Intellectuals Wearing White Masks
A Symphony of Voices
Hybridity and Mimicry in the Novel Pangeran Dari Timur Iksaka Banu's Work
A Satirical Reading of Wole Soyinka’s A Play of Giants
Who is afraid of the Gods? Rethinking escapism in Nigerian dramatic literature
Character as social semiotic in Wole Soyinka’s The lion and the jewel
World without a Word
Activism, Counter-Mythology, and Ethnic Self-Canonization
Ambivalent Relation with the Divine in Wole Soyinka's The Road
The African Literary Artist and the Question of Function
Christopher Okigbo, Print, and the Poetry of Postcolonial Modernity
Introduction
Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters
(Re)Fashioning Biafra
The Sacrificial Foundation of Modernity in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman
Deconstructing Masculinities, Feminist Reconstructions
Blurred Genres, Blended Memories
Blurred Genres, Blended Memories
Ritual, cultural politics and the suicides in Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman
Contextualizing the contours of subjugation
Dramatic Dissent in Wole Soyinka’s Metaphysical Play Death and the King’s Horseman (1975) and Biyi Bandele’s Netflix Adaptation Elesin Oba
Game of the Intruder
Ritual form and mythologization of death in Wole Soyinka’s ‘Procession’
Wole Soyinka’s dystopian/utopian vision in A Dance of the Forests
Forget the Muse, think only of the (Decentered) Subject
Speculative vertices, Ogun mythopoesis, and (the) fourth/further stage(s)
Religious metaphors and the crisis of faith in Wole Soyinka’s poetry
Wole Soyinka’s The Road as an intertext
Going a piece of the way with Carole Boyce Davies’s migrating subject
Desperate optimism
Nelson Mandela as poetic trope
Embodied Masculine Sovereignty, Reimagined Femininity
Of Blood and Wine Soyinka’s Bacchae as example of syncretic, circular and multidimensional theatre
Adichie came with a rare, nearly unprecedented generational path-finding impetus
The Man Died
Crossroads of generational thinking
Ritual and theatre at the crossroads of poetics, politics and epistemology
Uncivil Performances
The affirmative, the interstitial
Scripting Empire
Political Intuition and African Autobiographies of Childhood
Domesticating the subaltern in the global novel in English
The body unbound
Intellectuals as Sacrificial Heroes
Re-narrating the nation
No Danger No Delay
Self-censorship and Shifting Cognitions of Offence in the Stand-up Acts of Basket Mouth and Trevor Noah
Arugba
The Dynamics of Celluloid on the Road to Independence
The black Atlantic
Language, Semantics and Ideology
Morning yet on creation day
How To Do Things With Words
Theses on the Philosophy of History
From the German Ideology
The Wretched of the Earth
The Power of the Powerless
The Post-Structuralist Condition
An African Voice
Nigerian Civil War Notebook
The Writing of Wole Soyinka
The Dead End of African Literature
Soyinka, Euripides, and the Anxiety of Empire
Violence and the Sacred
The philosophical discourse of modernity
The Politics of Wole Soyinka
Black Paris
Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance
Cultural Criticism in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman
Madness and Civilization
Wole Soyinka and Modern Tragedy
Racism's Last Word
| Highly cited | No |
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