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024 7 _a10.1163/9789004358126
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035 _a(OCoLC)174168220
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100 1 _aMsiska, Mpalive-Hangson.
245 1 0 _aPostcolonial identity in Wole Soyinka /
_cMpalive-Hangson Msiska.
264 1 _aAmsterdam ;
_aNew York, NY :
_bRodopi,
_c2007.
300 _a1 online resource (xxxvii, 176 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCross/cultures,
_x0924-1426 ;
_v93
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 165-176).
505 0 0 _aPreliminary Material -- Myth, History and Postcolonial Modernity -- Tradition and Modernity -- The Banality of Postcolonial Power -- The Abyss of Postcolonial Formation -- Resources for Redemption -- Works Cited.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aSoyinka’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.
600 1 0 _aSoyinka, Wole
_xCriticism and interpretation.
600 1 7 _aSoyinka, Wole.
_2fast
650 0 _aPostcolonialism in literature.
650 7 _aPolitical and social views.
_2fast
650 7 _aPostcolonialism in literature.
_2fast
655 7 _aCriticism, interpretation, etc.
_2fast
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aMsiska, Mpalive-Hangson.
_tPostcolonial identity in Wole Soyinka.
_dAmsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007
_w(OCoLC)608473891
830 0 _aCross/Cultures
_v93.
830 0 _aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004357969.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004358126
999 _c14447
_d14447