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Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation

Af: Dr. Toyin Falola, Dr. Bola Dauda Engelsk Paperback

Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation

Af: Dr. Toyin Falola, Dr. Bola Dauda Engelsk Paperback
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This timely and expansive biography of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate, and social activist, shows how the author’s early years influence his life’s work and how his writing, in turn, informs his political engagement. Three sections spanning his life, major texts, and place in history, connect Soyinka’s legacy with global issues beyond the borders of his own country, and indeed beyond the African continent.

Covering his encounters with the widespread rise of kleptocratic rule and international corporate corruption, his reflection on the human condition of the North-South divide, and the consequences of postcolonialism, this comprehensive biography locates Wole Soyinka as a global figure whose life and works have made him a subject of conversation in the public sphere, as well as one of Africa’s most successful and popular authors. Looking at the different forms of Soyinka’s work--plays, novels, and memoirs, among others--this volume argues that Soyinka used writing to inform, mobilize, and sometimes incite civil action, in a decades-long attempt at literary social engineering.

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This timely and expansive biography of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate, and social activist, shows how the author’s early years influence his life’s work and how his writing, in turn, informs his political engagement. Three sections spanning his life, major texts, and place in history, connect Soyinka’s legacy with global issues beyond the borders of his own country, and indeed beyond the African continent.

Covering his encounters with the widespread rise of kleptocratic rule and international corporate corruption, his reflection on the human condition of the North-South divide, and the consequences of postcolonialism, this comprehensive biography locates Wole Soyinka as a global figure whose life and works have made him a subject of conversation in the public sphere, as well as one of Africa’s most successful and popular authors. Looking at the different forms of Soyinka’s work--plays, novels, and memoirs, among others--this volume argues that Soyinka used writing to inform, mobilize, and sometimes incite civil action, in a decades-long attempt at literary social engineering.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 312
ISBN-13: 9781501375750
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 150137575X
Kategori: Nigeria
Udg. Dato: 2 dec 2021
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 229mm
Højde: 153mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Oplagsdato: 2 dec 2021
Forfatter(e): Dr. Toyin Falola, Dr. Bola Dauda
Forfatter(e) Dr. Toyin Falola, Dr. Bola Dauda

Kategori Nigeria

ISBN-13 9781501375750

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 312

Udgave

Længde 21mm

Bredde 229mm

Højde 153mm

Udg. Dato 2 dec 2021

Oplagsdato 2 dec 2021

Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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