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Pàgina
... novels and plays are appreciated through- out the world . His works have attracted the at- tention of such acclaimed authors and critics as Wilson Harris , Henry Louis Gates , Jr. , Kwame Anthony Appiah , as well as such lead- ing ...
... novels and plays are appreciated through- out the world . His works have attracted the at- tention of such acclaimed authors and critics as Wilson Harris , Henry Louis Gates , Jr. , Kwame Anthony Appiah , as well as such lead- ing ...
Pàgina xiii
... novel by Bessie Head , A Question of Power , significantly a text of great complexity of vision and novelistic technique . This brief examination of a much dis- cussed episode in Bessie Head's remarkable novel will enable us to locate ...
... novel by Bessie Head , A Question of Power , significantly a text of great complexity of vision and novelistic technique . This brief examination of a much dis- cussed episode in Bessie Head's remarkable novel will enable us to locate ...
Pàgina xiv
... novel . The reader of the novel is alternately exhilarated , perplexed , and spiritually uplifted as the story of Elizabeth , the protagonist , unfolds . In the main , this story comprises two episodes of schizophrenia and madness and ...
... novel . The reader of the novel is alternately exhilarated , perplexed , and spiritually uplifted as the story of Elizabeth , the protagonist , unfolds . In the main , this story comprises two episodes of schizophrenia and madness and ...
Pàgina xv
... novel . In the light of this subtly contextualized critique , writers who , in postmodern , " over - sophisticated " cultures , no longer write to be understood , who indeed write in the expectation that they will not only not be ...
... novel . In the light of this subtly contextualized critique , writers who , in postmodern , " over - sophisticated " cultures , no longer write to be understood , who indeed write in the expectation that they will not only not be ...
Pàgina xvi
... novel , Forest of a Thousand Daemons [ Oghoju Oat Ninu Igbo Irunmale ] is a head cracker for indigenous Yoruba speakers . I know what problems we used to have [ with it ] in school . But complex subjects sometimes elicit from the writer ...
... novel , Forest of a Thousand Daemons [ Oghoju Oat Ninu Igbo Irunmale ] is a head cracker for indigenous Yoruba speakers . I know what problems we used to have [ with it ] in school . But complex subjects sometimes elicit from the writer ...
Continguts
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Poetics and the Mythic Imagination | 27 |
The Foxs Dance | 41 |
Being the Will and the Semantics of Death | 62 |
Blood and Wine | 77 |
Soyinka and His Radical Critics | 91 |
Wole Soyinka and the Tropes of Disalienation | 104 |
Wole Soyinka and Heine Muller | 128 |
Myth Literature and the African World | 157 |
Wole Soyinka and the Living Dramatist | 172 |
Wole Soyinka and the Atunda Ideal | 187 |
The Space of Transformations | 201 |
Index | 237 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 228 - As substitute, it is not simply added to the positivity of a presence, it produces no relief, its place is assigned in the structure by the mark of an emptiness.
Pàgina 81 - He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he Is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from Judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Pàgina 61 - And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.
Pàgina 104 - The average published writer in the first few years of the post-colonial era was the most celebrated skin of inconsequence to obscure the true flesh of the African dilemma.
Pàgina 73 - Ifa oracular wisdoms that a rupture is often simply one aspect of the destructive-creative unity, that offences even against nature may be part of the exaction by deeper nature from humanity of acts which alone can open up the deeper springs of man and bring about a constant rejuvenation of the human spirit. Nature in turn benefits by such broken taboos, just as the cosmos does by demands made upon its will by man's cosmic affronts.
Pàgina 78 - ... live in. We did it for them. It was all for their own common good. What did it benefit me whether the man lived or died. But did you see them?
Pàgina 55 - Deep. Silent but deep. Oh my friend, beware the pity of those that have no tongue for they have been proclaimed sole guardians of the Word. They have slept beyond the portals of secrets. They have pierced the guard of eternity and unearthed the Word, a golden nugget on the tongue.
Pàgina 103 - Thus, it may be seen that if imperialist domination has the vital need to practice cultural oppression, national liberation is necessarily an act of culture.
Pàgina 175 - This is the last Our feet shall touch together We thought the tune Obeyed us to the soul But the drums are newly shaped And stiff arms strain On stubborn crooks, so Delve with the left foot For ill-luck; with the left Again for ill-luck; once more With the left alone, for disaster Is the only certainty we know.