The Festive Year
Wole Soyinka's Annus Mirabilis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4903811 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Derek Wright (0000-0003-0411-4497, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 511-519 |
| Publication date | 1990-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x00054677 |
| OpenAlex | W2022807489 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
It was in 1960, the year of independence and therefore a time of celebration and festivities in Nigeria, that Wole Soyinka, after just over five years in Britain (three at the University of Leeds and two at the Royal Court Theatre, London), returned to his native land. This was moreover, according to some sources, a period in which he undertook empirical research into festivities of a different kind, which subsequently supplied a specific input into the ritualism of his early plays
Aesthetics · Art · Independence (probability theory) · Period (music) · History · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Theater, Performance, and Music History · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |