The Interpreters: Ritual, Violence, and Social Regeneration in the Writing of Wole Soyinka
By Hakeem Bello.
Description
A concern for social regeneration stands as the factor that animates Soyinka's life-long involvement in social and political activism, leading to hid 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 i...
ISBN(s)
9789181957, 9789789181957
