...This chapter compares two novels: Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh's (Mendele Moykher-Sforim) Di Klyatshe and Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters. Comprised of twenty-four chapters, Di Klyatshe parodies haskole by telling the story...

... BBC The Interrogator BBC drama Arrow in the Air ITV drama One Morning Near Troodos BBC drama Barthes Roland Negative Evidence ITV drama war in film war in drama socialist theatre Theatre Workshop Royal Court Theatre Wole Soyinka catharsis television drama Troy Kennedy Martin As colonial...

... Mister Heracles adapt the figure of Heracles to contemplate the demise of the male hero via a translational practice that embodies the demise of the male Author. In Brendan Kennelly’s versions of Greek tragedy, the same practice is adopted to voice the silenced female stories. In Wole Soyinka’s...

... Walcott and Wole Soyinka, and the significance of the book for emerging fields such as ‘black classicism’ is explored. Epistles Horace Horace Madhusudan Michael Madhusudan Datta Pope Alexander Milton John Paradise Lost Odes Horace Paradise Lost Milton Satires Horace Tilottamā sambhab kābya Grant...

..., from Aboriginal drama, from a play by Asif Currimbhoy, The Dumb Dancer, and from Wole Soyinka's play Death and the King's Horseman. Currimbhoy Asif kathakaḷi Kente Gibson Ngema Mbongeni Ogunde Herbert Soyinka Wole Yoruba Folk Opera Arden John Barba Eugenio...

... Robert Oyelana Tunji Soyinka Wole Abiola M K O Essiet Victor inflation Mandators Fashek Majek Islam Muslim–Christian conflict Kimono Ras Lagbaja Ologunde Bisade Babangida Ibrahim democratic transitions elections Joseph Osayomore military rule Third Republic Fourth Republic war against...

...This chapter presents a comparative study of Faulkner and Wole Soyinka. By drawing global South connections between Mississippi and Nigeria, it maps Yoknapatawpha’s local racialized violence in stories such as “Red Leaves,” “That Evening Sun,” and “Delta Autumn” onto a larger transnational grid...

.... Exploring her interest in the Nag Hammadi texts; in African-American strategic appropriations of a performed ‘Egyptianness’; in Aesop; in the Antiquities collections at the Louvre; and in the work of other ‘diasporic classicists’ such as Wole Soyinka, it concludes that the Morrisonian oeuvre...

...This chapter discusses Wole Soyinka's The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite, It explores, first of all, how Soyinka draws on Yoruba mythology and cosmology to emphasise the revolutionary potential of ritual sacrifice. Then, the focus shifts to the politics that the adaptation...

... interest in the Nag Hammadi texts; in African‐American strategic appropriations of a performed ‘Egyptianness’; in Aesop; in the Antiquities collections at the Louvre; and in the work of other ‘diasporic classicists’ such as Wole Soyinka, it concludes that the Morrisonian oeuvre forms...

... and West) with Ancient Greece and Rome. It explores her affinities with Martin Bernal, Paul Gilroy, Joseph Roach, and Wole Soyinka; her anthologizing of African literature in the 1970s; her use of Egyptian traditions and of the Gnostic gospels in the Nag Hammadi library; her revisionary deployment...

... Republic of African music art history Nigeria Torday Emil Ellington Duke archives race and racialism slave trades Abrahams Peter African literature Soyinka Wole Zanzibar Africa African art archaeology art history Samuel Johnson Wole Soyinka In common with historians of all places...

... of Murray's translations on the reworking of Greek tragic plots by the Nigerian writer, Wole Soyinka. Court Theatre Euripides Granville Barker H Lyric Theatre Abbey Theatre Dublin Shaw G B Arrowsmith W Bantock G Eliot T S Soyinka W Vaughan Williams R 7  Aspects of his life and work Nietzsche F...

... of the chapter discusses theories of tragedy, supplementing Steiner with Soyinka. Our discussion of reception has necessarily modulated into one of postcolonialism, which is recognized as the most important critical trend in contemporary literary and cultural studies. Debates about the relations between...

.... For this to happen the moral and intellectual attributes of the people who are their creators also are of fundamental importance to the success of the creative process. Africa traditional cultures Yorùbá Abiodun Rowland sculpture in Yorùbá culture Soyinka Wole Barber Karin oríkì in Yorùbá culture Lagbai...

... The’ Yeats Spiritus Mundi Things Fall Apart Achebe imperfect Africanist paradigm history Michael Robartes spirit Persia Orientalism Said Said Edward ‘Statues The’ Yeats Vision A Yeats authorship Africa relation of Yeats’s work with modernity Soyinka Wole Frobenius Leo Nobel Prize...

... writers at arm's length. The chapter scrutinizes three plays: The Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot, Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka, and Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill. All these novels re-create a moment in colonial history as per the author's...

...This chapter explores the cultural critic offering an assessment that must be especially ready to historicise the work of Hugh MacDiarmid and Wole Soyinka, and to see the different roles their nations have played historically, beginning from the understanding that not all nations are the same...

... the work of Louise Bennett and Wole Soyinka within an unfolding genealogy of programmes, this chapter explores how the dramatic monologue and related modes of monologic address were reinvented in conjunction with broadcasting’s own structural principles of communication as a system of one...

...Looking at African literature, this article focuses on the fierce dispute that erupted between Chinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie, and Ihechukwu Madubuike, on the one hand, and Wole Soyinka, on the other, in the mid-1970s, and which took the form of an argument about the thrust, tendency, and significance...