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Title:

Perspectives on Wole Soyinka : freedom and complexity / edited by Biodun Jeyifo.

Publisher:

University Press of Mississippi,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xxii, 242 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Soyinka, Wole--Criticism and interpretation.
Nigeria--In literature.

Other Authors:

Jeyifo, Biodun, 1946-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Space of transformations : theory, myth, and ritual in the work of Wole Soyinka / Ato Quayson. Poetics and the mythic imagination / Stanley Macebuh -- Fox's dance : the staging of Soyinka's plays / Annemarie Heywood -- Complexity of freedom / Wilson Harris -- Being, the will, and the semantics of death / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Blood and wine : tragic ritual from Aeschylus to Soyinka / Philip Brockbank -- Soyinka and his radical critics : a review / Brian Crow -- Wole Soyinka and the tropes of disalienation / Biodun Jeyifo -- Wole Soyinka and Heine Muller : different cultural contexts, similar approaches / Joachim Fiebach -- Periodic embodiments : a ubiquitous trope in African men's writing / Florence Stratton -- Myth, literature, and the African world / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Wole Soyinka and the living dramatist : a playwright's encounter with the drama of Wole Soyinka / Femi Osofisan -- Wole Soyinka and the Atunda ideal : a reading of Soyinka's poetry / Niyi Osundare -- Space of transformations : theory, myth, and ritual in the work of Wole Soyinka / Ato Quayson.

ISBN:

9781578062614 (cloth : alk. paper)
1578062616 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781578063352 (cloth : alk. paper)
1578063353 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45284632

LCCN:

00051334

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)