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1 online resource (180 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Preface; Contents; Part One -- The Dramas; Chapter 1 -- The ritual imperative in African Drama; Chapter 2 -- Ritual as form and matter in the drama of communal regeneration; Chapter 3 -- Ritual as framework in the drama of the returning cycle; Chapter 4 -- Ritual as form in the drama of liberation; Chapter 5 -- Technical and aesthetic constants of ritual drama; Part Two -- The Novels ; Chapter 6 -- The Anjonu Metaphor: Towards a functional man-cosmos organization; Chapter 7 -- Aesthetics: A dialectical paradigm. |
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Chapter 8 -- Social and ideological commitments: The dividing lines in the novels of Wole SoyinkaChapter 9 -- Conclusion. Ritual, violence and social transformations: A lion or a jewel?; Index; Back cover. |
| Summary |
A concern for social regeneration stands as the factor that animates Soyinka's life-long involvement in social and political activism, leading to his incarceration for two years during the civil war, and his having to flee into exile during the period of Sani Abacha's dictatorship. Soyinka expresses this same concern for social regeneration in his writings, using difference metaphors. The focus of this work lies in the exploration of the articulations of social regeneration in the works of Wole Soyinka. The first past focuses on the dramatic works, and the argument of the author is that the metaphor adopted by Africa's foremost playwright in articulating his vision of social regeneration is that of ritual. Attention shifts in part two to Soyinka's two novels; and here, Bello goes to the roots of Yoruba metaphysics to fetch a metaphor which describes a creature with contradictory personality; which at once is committed to the regeneration of the social order while at the same time retaining a vindictive, vengeful nature. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Soyinka, Wole -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Soyinka, Wole. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Bello, Hakeem. Interpreters : ritual, violence and social regeneration in the writing of Wole Soyinka. Ibadan, Nigeria : Kraft Books Limited, ©2014 177 pages 9789789181957 |
| ISBN |
9789789182732 (electronic book) |
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9789182732 (electronic book) |
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9789789181957 |
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9789789181964 |
| Music No. |
MWT11582933 |
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