Postcolonial identity in Wole Soyinka / (Record no. 14447)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9789004358126 |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9789042022584 |
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| Standard number or code | 10.1163/9789004358126 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)174168220 |
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| Classification number | PR9387.9.S6 |
| Item number | Z788 2007 |
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| Subject category code | LIT004120 |
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| Classification number | 828.9'1409 |
| Edition information | 22 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Postcolonial identity in Wole Soyinka / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Mpalive-Hangson Msiska. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Amsterdam ; |
| -- | New York, NY : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Rodopi, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2007. |
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| Extent | 1 online resource (xxxvii, 176 pages) |
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| Series statement | Cross/cultures, |
| International Standard Serial Number | 0924-1426 ; |
| Volume/sequential designation | 93 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-176). |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Preliminary Material -- Myth, History and Postcolonial Modernity -- Tradition and Modernity -- The Banality of Postcolonial Power -- The Abyss of Postcolonial Formation -- Resources for Redemption -- Works Cited. |
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| Terms governing access | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Soyinka’s representation of postcolonial African identity is re-examined in the light of his major plays, novels and poetry to show how this writer’s idiom of cultural authenticity both embraces hybridity and defines itself as specific and particular. For Soyinka, such authenticity involves recovering tradition and inserting it in postcolonial modernity to facilitate transformative moral and political justice. The past can be both our enabling future and our nemesis. In a distinctive approach grounded in cultural studies, Postcolonial Identity in Wole Soyinka locates the artist’s intellectual and political concerns within the broader field of postcolonial cultural theory, arguing that, although ostensibly distant from mainstream theory, Soyinka focuses on fundamental questions concerning international culture and political identity formations – the relationship between myth and history / tradition and modernity, and the unresolved tension between power as a force for good or evil. Soyinka’s treatment of the relationship between individual selfhood and the various framing social and collective identities, so the book argues, is yet another aspect linking his work to the broader intellectual currents of today. Thus, Soyinka’s vision is seen as central to contemporary efforts to grasp the nature of modernity. His works conceptualize identity in ways that promote and modify national perceptions of ‘Africanness’, rescuing them from the colonial and neocolonial logic of cultural denigration in a manner that fully acknowledges the cosmopolitan and global contexts of African postcolonial formation. Overall, what emerges from the present study is the conviction that, in Soyinka’s work, it is the capacity to assume personal and collective agency and the particular choices made by particular subjects at given historical moments that determine the trajectory of change and ultimately the nature of postcolonial existence itself. Postcolonial Identity in Wole Soyinka is a major and imaginative contribution to the study of Wole Soyinka, African literature, and postcolonial cultural theory and one in which writing and creativity stand in fruitful symbiosis with the critical sense. It should appeal to Soyinka scholars, to students of African literature, and to anyone interested in postcolonial and cultural theory. |
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| Personal name | Soyinka, Wole |
| General subdivision | Criticism and interpretation. |
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| Personal name | Soyinka, Wole. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Postcolonialism in literature. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Political and social views. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Postcolonialism in literature. |
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| Relationship information | Online version: |
| Main entry heading | Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson. |
| Title | Postcolonial identity in Wole Soyinka. |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007 |
| Record control number | (OCoLC)608473891 |
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| Uniform title | Cross/Cultures |
| Volume/sequential designation | 93. |
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| Uniform title | Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004357969. |
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| Public note | DOI: |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004358126">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004358126</a> |
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