Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism

Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature

by Biodun Jeyifo

Biodun Jeyifo examines the relationship between the innovative and influential writings of Wole Soyinka and his radical political activism. Jeyifo analyzes Soyinka's most ambitious works, relating them to the controversies generated by his appropriation of literature and theater for radical political objectives. The evaluations of this study are presented in the context of Soyinka's sustained engagement with the collective experience of violence in post-independence, post-colonial Africa.

360 pages, Hardcover

First published November 12, 1999