Perspectives on Wole Soyinka: Freedom and Complexity
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Essays that examine the aesthetics and the radical politics of one of Africa's greatest writers
IntroductionTradition and the Yoruba Writer: D. O. Fagunwa, Amos Tutuola, and Wole Soyinka3Poetics and the Mythic Imagination27The Fox's Dance: The Staging of Soyinka's Plays41The Complexity of Freedom51Being, the Will, and the Semantics of Death62Blood and Wine: Tragic Ritual from Aeschylus to Soyinka77Soyinka and His Radical Critics: A Review91Wole Soyinka and the Tropes of Disalienation104Wole Soyinka and Heine Muller: Different Cultural Contexts, Similar Approaches128Periodic Embodiments: A Ubiquitous Trope in African Men's Writing140Myth, Literature, and the African World157Wole Soyinka and the Living Dramatist: A Playwright's Encounter with the Drama of Wole Soyinka172Wole Soyinka and the Atunda Ideal: A Reading of Soyinka's Poetry187The Space of Transformations: Theory, Myth, and Ritual in the Work of Wole Soyinka201Index237
