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The book reconsiders Soyinka's contribution to the debate about African identity, exploring the various elements constituting his distinctive aesthetic and apprehension of African culture. It concentrates on his plays, his fiction and poetry and investigates his views on the relationship between myth, history, and modernity, primarily highlighting his conception of the nature of African post-colonial society and power. Also, the book looks at Soyinka's exploration of the metaphysical aspects of evil, particularly as manifested in political violence, and, in addition, it examines his belief in the irrepressibility of the human desire to transcend any form of political, spiritual and social oppression. Finally, it argues that Soyinka's major contribution to our understanding of contemporary African life and art lies in his attempts to move beyond the idea of identity as an opposition between Self and Other to a conception of identity in which such concepts are either themselves questioned or transferred to a different frame or language where they are made to signify differently.

Soyinka, Wole --- Criticism and interpretation. --- شوينكا، وولي --- 渥雷・索因卡 --- Shoĭinka, Vole --- Soyinka, Akinwande Oluwole --- Wolei Suoyinka --- Soyinka, Wole (1934-....) --- Critique et interprétation

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Soyinka’s representation of postcolonial African identity is re-examined in the light of his major plays, novels and poetry to show how this writer’s idiom of cultural authenticity both embraces hybridity and defines itself as specific and particular. For Soyinka, such authenticity involves recovering tradition and inserting it in postcolonial modernity to facilitate transformative moral and political justice. The past can be both our enabling future and our nemesis. In a distinctive approach grounded in cultural studies, Postcolonial Identity in Wole Soyinka locates the artist’s intellectual and political concerns within the broader field of postcolonial cultural theory, arguing that, although ostensibly distant from mainstream theory, Soyinka focuses on fundamental questions concerning international culture and political identity formations – the relationship between myth and history / tradition and modernity, and the unresolved tension between power as a force for good or evil. Soyinka’s treatment of the relationship between individual selfhood and the various framing social and collective identities, so the book argues, is yet another aspect linking his work to the broader intellectual currents of today. Thus, Soyinka’s vision is seen as central to contemporary efforts to grasp the nature of modernity. His works conceptualize identity in ways that promote and modify national perceptions of ‘Africanness’, rescuing them from the colonial and neocolonial logic of cultural denigration in a manner that fully acknowledges the cosmopolitan and global contexts of African postcolonial formation. Overall, what emerges from the present study is the conviction that, in Soyinka’s work, it is the capacity to assume personal and collective agency and the particular choices made by particular subjects at given historical moments that determine the trajectory of change and ultimately the nature of postcolonial existence itself. Postcolonial Identity in Wole Soyinka is a major and imaginative contribution to the study of Wole Soyinka, African literature, and postcolonial cultural theory and one in which writing and creativity stand in fruitful symbiosis with the critical sense. It should appeal to Soyinka scholars, to students of African literature, and to anyone interested in postcolonial and cultural theory.

Postcolonialism in literature. --- Political and social views. --- Soyinka, Wole --- Soyinka, Wole. --- Shoĭinka, Vole --- Soyinka, Akinwande Oluwole --- Wolei Suoyinka --- شوينكا، وولي --- 渥雷・索因卡 --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Political and social views of a person

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African literature --- Soyinka, Wole --- 820 "19" SOYINKA, WOLE --- Tragedy --- Yoruba (African people) in literature --- Drama --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--SOYINKA, WOLE --- -شوينكا، وولي --- 渥雷・索因卡 --- Shoĭinka, Vole --- Soyinka, Akinwande Oluwole --- Wolei Suoyinka --- Tragedies --- Nigeria --- In literature. --- Tragedy. --- Yoruba (African people) in literature. --- -Tragedies --- 820 "19" SOYINKA, WOLE Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--SOYINKA, WOLE --- شوينكا، وولي --- Tragedies. --- Soyinka (wole), 1934 --- -Tragedy. --- -Soyinka (wole), 1934 --- -Tragedy --- -African literature

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Un psychanalyste, éclairé par des échanges nombreux avec un anthropologue, se pose la question très actuelle du rapport difficile de l'Afrique contemporaine avec la culture et le monde moderne : la rencontre des traditions anciennes et de la civilisation occidentale, une approche nouvelle des institutions démocratiques, un accès original à la science et à la religion. Au cours de ses interrogations, il trouve, dans l'oeuvre d'un dramaturge africain, Wole Soyinka (prix Nobel de littérature en 1987), un interlocuteur honnête, parfois violent, toujours sincère.Analyse de : La mort et l'écuyer du roi - La route - Les Bacchantes d'Euripide - La danse de la forêt - Les gens des marais

Psychology in literature --- Nigerian drama (English) --- Psychoanalysis and literature --- Psychological aspects --- Soyinka, Wole --- Knowledge --- Psychology --- Dramatic works --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- -Psychoanalysis and literature --- -Psychology in literature --- Psychology as a theme in literature --- Literature and psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalytic literary criticism --- Literature --- English drama --- Nigerian literature (English) --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Etnografie: Afrika --- -Soyinka, Wole --- -شوينكا، وولي --- 渥雷・索因卡 --- Shoĭinka, Vole --- Soyinka, Akinwande Oluwole --- Wolei Suoyinka --- -Psychology --- -Dramatic works --- شوينكا، وولي --- Dramatic works. --- Psychology. --- Nigerian drama (English) - Psychological aspects --- Psychoanalysis and literature - Nigeria --- Soyinka, Wole - Knowledge - Psychology --- Soyinka, Wole - Dramatic works --- Afrique --- Culture --- Psychanalyse --- Anthropologie --- Théâtre --- Analyse théâtrale

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Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of physical disability. Quayson suggests that the subliminal unease and moral panic invoked by the disabled is refracted within the structures of literature and literary discourse itself, a crisis he terms "aesthetic nervousness." The disabled reminds the able-bodied that the body is provisional and temporary and that normality is wrapped up in certain social frameworks. Quayson expands his argument by turning to Greek and Yoruba writings, African American and postcolonial literature, depictions of deformed characters in early modern England and the plays of Shakespeare, and children's films, among other texts. He considers how disability affects interpersonal relationships and forces the character and the reader to take an ethical standpoint, much like representations of violence, pain, and the sacred. The disabled are also used to represent social suffering, inadvertently obscuring their true hardships.

82:316 --- Literatuursociologie --- 82:316 Literatuursociologie --- Abnormalities, Human, in literature --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- Diseases and literature --- People with disabilities in literature --- People with disabilities --- Handicapped in literature --- Physically handicapped in literature --- Literature and diseases --- Literature --- History and criticism --- Social conditions --- Beckett, Samuel, --- Coetzee, J. M., --- Morrison, Toni --- Soyinka, Wole --- شوينكا، وولي --- 渥雷・索因卡 --- Shoĭinka, Vole --- Soyinka, Akinwande Oluwole --- Wolei Suoyinka --- Coetzee, John M., --- Кутзее, Дж. М., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл, --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell, --- Pei-kʻo-tʻe, Sa-miao-erh, --- Beḳeṭ, Samuel, --- Beckett, Sam, --- Беккет, Сэмюэль, --- בעקעט, סאמועל --- בקט, סמואל --- בקט, סמואל, --- بكت، ساموئل --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Bikit, Sāmūʼil, --- Beckett, Samuel --- Coetzee, John Maxwell M. --- Coetzee, J. M. --- Coetzee, J.M. --- Coetzee, John M. --- Кутзее, Дж. М. --- Kutzee, Dzh. M. --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell --- Wofford, Chloe Anthony --- Morrisonová, Toni --- מוריסון, טוני --- HANDICAP --- BECKETT (SAMUEL), 1906-1989 --- MORRISON (TONI), 1931 --- -COETZEE (JOHN MAXWELL), 1940 --- -SOYINKA (WOLE), 1934 --- -Invalides --- DANS LA LITTERATURE --- CRITIQUE ET INTERPRETATION --- Conditions sociales