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21. Death and the King's Horseman
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22. Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics,
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23. Soyinka Plays: "A Play of Giants";
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24. The Trials of Brother Jero and
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25. The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion
 
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26. Novels of Wole Soyinka
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27. Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of
 
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28. Wole Soyinka ; An Anthology of
 
29. Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole
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30. Perspectives on Wole Soyinka:
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31. World Authors Series: Wole Soyinka
 
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32. The political philosophy of Wole
 
33. The rounded rite: A study of Wole
 
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34. Three great African novelists:
 
35. Critical Perspectives on Wole
 
36. The Writing of Wole Soyinka
 
37. WOLE SOYINKA (Garland reference
 
38. Wole Soyinka (Modern African Writers)
 
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39. Research on Wole Soyinka
 
40. Die afrikanische Rezeption von

21. Death and the King's Horseman a Play By Wole Soyinka
by Wole Soyinka
 Paperback: 77 Pages (1987)
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22. Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism (Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature)
by Biodun Jeyifo
Paperback: 360 Pages (2009-05-07)
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Asin: 0521110734
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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. ... Read more


23. Soyinka Plays: "A Play of Giants"; "From Zia with Love"; "A Source of Hyacinths"; "The Beatification of Area Boy" v. 2 (Contemporary Dramatists)
by Wole Soyinka
Paperback: 368 Pages (1999-02-04)
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Asin: 0413732606
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"Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest" (New York Times Book Review) A Play of Giants is a savage satire on some of the best-known dictators of our time (including Idi Amin); it brings together a group of dictatorial African leaders at bay in an embassy in New York attempting to make decisions together. Its theatrical predecessors include: Genet's The Balcony and Brecht's Arturo Ui.From Zia with Love and A Scourge of Hyacinths; When the Military decrees that a crime carrying a prison sentence now retroactively warrants summary execution, confusion and fear permeate a society where the brutality and injustice of military rule is parodied by life inside prison - based on events in Nigeria in the early 1980s Wole Soyinka's stage play From Zia with Love and radio play A Scourge of Hyacinths, were produced in the early 90s. ... Read more


24. The Trials of Brother Jero and The Strong Breed.
by Wole Soyinka
Paperback: Pages (1998-01)
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Asin: 0822210908
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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3-0 out of 5 stars Soyinka's a master
I have read four of Soyinka's plays and found his use of language and drama to be exciting and unmatched by any other African playwright. The Brother Jero plays portray the problem of many African societies which have fallen to religion as a way out of their problems, only to be exploited by dubious and unscrupulous 'prophets' who know their weakness. Soyinka artistically avoids the criminalisation of Bro Jeroboam -he dupes even the authorities. The farce is that this silly problem continues unchecked in many places, despite the obviousbad character traits of some so-called prophets. A treat for lovers of subtle comedy.

5-0 out of 5 stars Exellent work of art
It is a very good.I recommend the book for people of all ages because I had fun reading it. I take this opportunity to thank my English teacher in my High School for introducing such a wonderful book. ... Read more


25. The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite
by Wole Soyinka
Paperback: 126 Pages (2004-07)
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Asin: 0393325830
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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A wholly fresh interpretation of the timeless play by a Nobel Prize-winning author.

Wole Soyinka has translated—in both language and spirit—a great classic of ancient Greek theater. He does so with a poet's ear for the cadences and rhythms of chorus and solo verse as well as a commanding dramatic use of the central social and religious myth. In his hands The Bacchae becomes a communal feast, a tumultuous celebration of life, and a robust ritual of the human and social psyche. "The Bacchae is the rites of an extravagant banquet, a monstrous feast," Soyinka writes. "Man reaffirms his indebtedness to earth, dedicates himself to the demands of continuity, and invokes the energies of productivity. Reabsorbed within the communal psyche he provokes the resources of nature; in turn he is replenished for the cyclic rain in his fragile individual potency." The blending of two master playwrights—Euripides and Soyinka—makes for an unforgettable experience. ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars Very Different than Euripides's play
Actually this play by Soyinka is ENTIRELY an adaptation, and contains very little (if any) of the original ancient text.He says in the preface that he borrowed from other translations to make his adaptation.So the below reviewer is mistaken when he says that it is "a pretty faithful adaptation of it".I have studied The Bacchae for years, in the original ancient Greek and in over 8 translations of it, and can say without any hesitation that this is a completely DIFFERENT play than Euripides'.The only things that remain the same are the characters and the flavour of the structure of the original.

It is a beautiful "adaptation" nevertheless, but really, nothing can compare to Euripides's!

5-0 out of 5 stars Soyinka's Translation Brings Diversity to the Ancient
Soyinka's translation of Sophocles' ancient work brings new life to the piece so many have already read. His version of the poem incorporates his opinions--as shaped while growing up in Africa--into the ancient work, and the translation brings a fresh take on the play. I advise it to be read alongside a "traditional" reading of the play if in a classroom setting, so that the ancient ideas are still upheld, while fresh ones are incorporated. A lovely work.

4-0 out of 5 stars Feast!
As a conscript to the universal workings of myth as means to replenish the psychic and physical energies of the social group- Wole Soyinka's Bacchae was a satisfying read. This man of universal letters revised Euripides' drama only in so far as he infused it with his tribal, i.e. Yoruban flavor for the congruent deity of Orgun. The Dionysian trail throughout history haunted Solyinka as it has audiences and adherents. The playwright is not alone in ascribing the immortality of the piece to a universal need to purge the soul and soil with blood and excess. (Some say cannibalism. others, communion.)If not cyclically honored, if not worshipped and given this praise, the God will avenge mankind in horror and misery.Jung, after all, believed that Nazism was Orgun's revenge. The Bacchae and other rituals of excess, blood sacrifices andorphic trance are reenacted in every culture and as May Day, have become vastly diluted to the point of being hardly recognizable.Without the order of the religious, the encoded structure, the excess is uncontained and works against the social good. (60's idealists to Weathermen, deaths, etc.)
When it was first written, it reflected a socio-economic condition in Greece. Many of the towns had imported slave labor and left the lower classes without income. Further, the cheap labor allowed for expansion of the mercantile and industrial centers so that these people's lands were being lost. Then as in the rest of its rebirths, the cult of Dionysius came to lifeduring economic displacement and forced migrations. In other words the return to the earth and the mad episodes of discontrol provided massive antidotes and a new source of power to the earthly loss of the same.As this has been a retrograde force througout history and touches the human need to rejoin the natural forces and cycles, to sacrifice and re-enact the drama of the 'scapegoat' the force of the drama collapses time and culture. Themes are rewoven throughout the continents and the social rituals. May Day is one, as are Mardi Gras and the other 'secret' and excessive- bloody- banquets that serve some unique human and social function- a blood letting, and a rebellion against the enforced 'mysteries' or 'laws' from the state system.
A brilliant playwright and literary lion. The play is a tour de force and will touch the repressed or forgotten in all of us.

3-0 out of 5 stars a communion rite
I read Euripides' original The Bakkhai, and I found Soyinka's version to be a pretty faithful adaptation of it.Soyinka's Bacchae was written as an African-influence stage play, and though I never saw it performed I think it would work wonderfully.I would recommend this play for anyone interested in either the Classics, or just Greek/Roman tragedies in general. ... Read more


26. Novels of Wole Soyinka
by M. Rajeshwar
 Hardcover: 95 Pages (1990-05-01)
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27. Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Studies)
by James Gibbs
Hardcover: 117 Pages (1986-01-22)
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28. Wole Soyinka ; An Anthology of Recent Criticism
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29. Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka
by Wole Soyinka
 Paperback: 315 Pages (1972-11)

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4-0 out of 5 stars Harrowing
This is the story of Soyinka's 27 month period of imprisonment at the hands of the Nigerian government. Unlike, say, Nelson Mandela's autobiography, which generally casts a similar subject in its wider political and social contexts, this is fundamentally a personal account, painfully private at times. Essentially, Soyinka found refuge from the brutality inflicted upon him by retreating into and living within his own mind. At times he drifted about the frontiers of madness, hanging on to his self by a thread. At others he pondered, listened, watched, like only the truly otherwise unoccupied can. And, importantly, he also managed to scrounge paper and a pencil from time to time and record his journey of motionlessness. For those interested in the human mind, this is a rewarding book, and I highly recommend it. ... Read more


30. Perspectives on Wole Soyinka: Freedom and Complexity
Paperback: 264 Pages (2006-06-01)
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This collection of the most significant and illuminating critical essays about the works of Wole Soyinka over the past three decades is evidence of the international esteem he has achieved. This Nobel Prize winner from Nigeria is arguably Africa's greatest living writer.His novels and plays are appreciated throughout the world.His works have attracted the attention of such acclaimed authors and critics as Wilson Harris, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kwame Anthony Appiah, as well as such leading academicians as Philip Brockbank, Joachim Fieback, Abiola Irele, Femi Osofisan, and Niyi Osundare.

Gathered here in this remarkable collection, the essays simultaneously showcase Soyinka's postcolonial politics and his literary aestheticism.They reveal the irony that the downtrodden peoples whom Soyinka champions are those who cannot read his stirring books or see his compelling dramas. Biodun Jeyifo was Soyinka's student, junior colleague, and even, Jeyifo says, his "adversary in the ferocious intramural ideological debates within the community of African leftist writers, critics, and academics in the seventies and eighties."

"This book," Jeyifo writes in his introduction, "is the product of [an] extensive review of the scholarly aspects of the reception of Soyinka in the last three decades of his career as one of the most influential of writers of Africa."

This volume will afford Soyinka's readers a heightened sense of the wit, humor, and eloquence of this leading writer-activist of Africa and the English-speaking world. ... Read more


31. World Authors Series: Wole Soyinka Revisited (Twayne's World Authors Series)
by Derek Wright
Hardcover: 160 Pages (1992-12-16)
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32. The political philosophy of Wole Soyinka and other narratives
by Yemi D Ogunyemi
 Unknown Binding: 158 Pages (2001)
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33. The rounded rite: A study of Wole Soyinka's play, The Bacchae of Euripides (Lund studies in English)
by Wiveca Sotto
 Unknown Binding: 187 Pages (1985)

Isbn: 9140050998
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34. Three great African novelists: Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka & Amos Tutuola (Creative new literatures series)
by Anjali Gera
 Unknown Binding: 149 Pages (2001)
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35. Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
by James Gibbs (Editor)
 Paperback: 274 Pages (1981)

Isbn: 0435916130
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36. The Writing of Wole Soyinka
by Eldred Durosimi Jones
 Paperback: 258 Pages (1988-03-31)
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Includes sections on Wole Soyinka's autobiographical work Ake, some of his plays, some collections of poetry and of two of his novels. North America: Heinemann ... Read more


37. WOLE SOYINKA (Garland reference library of the humanities)
by Maduakor
 Hardcover: 339 Pages (1987-05-01)
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Isbn: 0824091418
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38. Wole Soyinka (Modern African Writers)
by Gerald Moore
 Paperback: 178 Pages (1978-09)

Isbn: 023750023X
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39. Research on Wole Soyinka
by Bernth Lindfors
 Paperback: 380 Pages (1992-09)
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40. Die afrikanische Rezeption von Brecht im Lichte der Literaturtheorien: Aufgezeigt am Beispiel von Wole Soyinkas "Opera Wonyosi" (European university studies. ... language and literature) (German Edition)
by Emmanuel Bationo
 Paperback: 157 Pages (1999)

Isbn: 3631343663
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