Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
Title | Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka PDF eBook |
Author | Wole Soyinka |
Publisher | Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Nigeria |
ISBN | 9780914478492 |
Distinguished scholars analyze the plays, poetry, and prose of Wole Smoyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. Essays trace his career and place his work in the general context of African literature.
Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
Title | Perspectives on Wole Soyinka PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 274 |
Release | |
Genre | Authors, Nigerian |
ISBN | 9781617032530 |
Essays that examine the aesthetics and the radical politics of one of Africa's greatest writers
Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
Title | Perspectives on Wole Soyinka PDF eBook |
Author | Biodun Jeyifo |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Authors, Nigerian |
ISBN |
Essays that examine the aesthetics and the radical politics of one of Africa's greatest writers
Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
Title | Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka PDF eBook |
Author | James Gibbs |
Publisher | |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | African literature (English) |
ISBN | 9780435916138 |
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
Title | You Must Set Forth at Dawn PDF eBook |
Author | Wole Soyinka |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 525 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307432904 |
The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered homeland. In the tough, humane, and lyrical language that has typified his plays and novels, Soyinka captures the indomitable spirit of Nigeria itself by bringing to life the friends and family who bolstered and inspired him, and by describing the pioneering theater works that defied censure and tradition. Soyinka not only recounts his exile and the terrible reign of General Sani Abacha, but shares vivid memories and playful anecdotes–including his improbable friendship with a prominent Nigerian businessman and the time he smuggled a frozen wildcat into America so that his students could experience a proper Nigerian barbecue. More than a major figure in the world of literature, Wole Soyinka is a courageous voice for human rights, democracy, and freedom. You Must Set Forth at Dawn is an intimate chronicle of his thrilling public life, a meditation on justice and tyranny, and a mesmerizing testament to a ravaged yet hopeful land.
Wole Soyinka
Title | Wole Soyinka PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
Publisher | Amistad Press |
Pages | |
Release | 1994-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781567430516 |
Conversations with Wole Soyinka
Title | Conversations with Wole Soyinka PDF eBook |
Author | Wole Soyinka |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Authors, Nigerian |
ISBN | 9781578063376 |
Within these interviews, Soyinka is forthright, clear and eloquent. He addresses many facets of his writing and plumbs pressing issues of culture, society and community.