Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism

Biodun Jeyifo

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511486593

References

Bibliography

Published works by wole Soyinka

The House of Banigeji (dramatic fragment) in Reflections: Nigerian Prose and Verse, Frances Ademola (ed.), Lagos, Nigeria: African Universities Press, 1962

The Lion and the Jewel (drama). London: Oxford University Press, 1963

A Dance of the Forests (drama). London: Oxford University Press, 1963

Five Plays: A Dance of the Forests, The Lion and the Jewels, The Swamp Dwellers, The Trials of Brother Jero and The Strong Breed. London: Oxford University Press, 1964

The Interpreters (novel). London: Andre Deutsch, 1965

The Road (drama). London: Oxford University Press, 1965

Kongi's Harvest (drama). London: Oxford University Press, 1967

Idanre and Other Poems. London: Methuen, 1967

The Forest of a Thousand Daemons. Translation of Yoruba novel, Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale by D. O. Fagunwa. London: Nelson, 1968

Three Plays: The Swamp Dwellers, The Trials of Brother Jero and The Strong Breed. Ibadan, Nigeria: Mbari Publications. Republished as Three Short Plays, London: Oxford University Press, 1969

Poems from Prison. London: Rex Collings, 1969

Before the Blackout (revue sketches). Ibadan: Orisun Editions, 1971

A Shuttle in the Crypt (poetry). London: Rex Collings/Metheun, 1971

Madmen and Specialists (drama). London: Metheun, 1971

The Man Died (prison memoir). London: Rex Collings, 1972

The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite (drama). London: Methuen, 1973

Camwood on the Leaves (radio drama). London: Metheun, 1973

Collected Plays, Vol 1. London: Oxford University Press, 1973

The Jero Plays (The Trials of Brother Jero and Jero's Metamorphosis). London: Methuen, 1973

Season of Anomy (novel). London: Rex Collings, 1973

Collected Plays, Vol 2. London: Oxford University Press, 1974

Death and the King's Horseman (drama). London: Methuen, 1975

Poems of Black Africa (edited anthology). London: Secker and Warburg, 1975

Myth, Literature and the African World (criticism). Cambridge University Press, 1976

Ogun Abibiman (poetry). London: Rex Collings, 1976

Aké: The Years of Childhood (autobiography). London: Rex Collings, 1981

Opera Wonyosi (drama). London: Rex Collings, 1981

A Play of Giants (drama). London: Methuen, 1984

Six Plays (The Trials of Brother Jero; Jero's Metamorphosis; Camwood on the Leaves; Death and the King's Horseman; Madmen and Specialists; Opera Wonyosi). London: Methuen, 1984

Requiem for a Futurologist (drama). London: Rex Collings, 1985

Mandela's Earth and Other Poems. New York: Random House, 1988

Isara: A Voyage Around ‘Essay’ (memoir). New York: Random House, 1989

From Zia with Love and A Scourge of Hyacinths (dramas). London: Metheun, 1992

Art, Dialogue and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture. [Edited by Biodun Jeyifo] Ibadan: New Horn Press, 1988. Expanded and Revised. Edition published by Methuen, 1993

Ibadan: The ‘Penkelemes’ Years (memoir). London: Methuen, 1994

The Beatification of Area Boy: A Lagosian Kaleidoscope (drama). London: Methuen, 1995

The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (political and philosophical reflection). New York: Oxford University Press, 1996

The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness (literary criticism, political and philosophical reflection). New York: Oxford University Press, 1999

Outsiders (poetry). Canton, GA: Wisteria Press, 1999

Uncollected essays and articles

“And After the Narcissist?.” African Forum 1.4, 1966, 53–64

“The Nigerian Stage: A Study in Tyranny and Individual Survival.” In Colloquium on Negro Art. Paris: Presence Africaine, 1968, 538–49

“Ethics, Ideology and the Critic.” In Criticism and Ideology, Kirsten Holst Petersen (ed.), Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1988, 26–51

“This Past Must Address Its Present” (Nobel Prize Lecture). In Black American Literature Forum 22.3, 1988, 429–46

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“Of Power and Change.” African Statesman 1.3, 1999, 17–19

“From Ghetto to Garrison: A Chronic Case of Orisunitis,” Research in African Literatures, vol. 30 no. 4, (Winter 1999), 6–23

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Wole Soyinka

Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism

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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-viii

Contents
pp ix-x

Preface
pp xi-xxiv

Chronology
pp xxv-xxxii

List of abbreviations
pp xxxiii-xxxiv

Chapter 1 - ‘Representative’ and unrepresentable modalities of the self: the gnostic, worldly and radical humanism of Wole Soyinka
pp 1-40

Chapter 2 - Tragic mythopoesis as postcolonial discourse – critical and theoretical writings
pp 41-82

Chapter 3 - The “drama of existence”: sources and scope
pp 83-119

Chapter 4 - Ritual, anti-ritual and the festival complex in Soyinka's dramatic parables
pp 120-166

Chapter 5 - The ambiguous freight of visionary mythopoesis: fictional and nonfictional prose works
pp 167-219

Chapter 6 - Poetry, versification and the fractured burdens of commitment
pp 220-275

Chapter 7 - “Things fall together”: Wole Soyinka in his Own Write
pp 276-288

Notes
pp 289-306

Bibliography
pp 307-316

Index
pp 317-322

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