The interpreters : ritual, violence and social regeneration in the writing of Wole Soyinka /
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...
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Ibadan, Nigeria :
Kraft Books Limited,
2014
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Table of 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.
- 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.
