The Poetry of Wole Soyinka
Price 41.30 USD
EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9789780230067
Brand
Malthouse Press
Author
Tanure Ojaide
Producer
Книга по Требованию
Pages
152
Year of production
2002
The Nobel Laureate"s reputation as a dramatist tends to cloud his poetic achievement, and in modern African literature, poetry lives in the shadow of fiction. The criticism of Soyinka"s poetry has so far centred on his themes of individuality and death, his imagery, and on the controversy over his authenticity, obscurity and difficulty. Here, in a new approach, an academic himself and one of the leading younger generation of African poets, discusses critically the voice and viewpoint of the poet with the object of establishing Soyinka"s persona. The book covers the personality and world view of the man, as revealed in his poetry.