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Myth, Literature and the African World

Myth, Literature and the African World

Soyinka, Wole
Wole, Soyinka

Paperback

Series: Canto

Fiction Anthologies

Publisher Price: $21.00

ISBN10: 0521398347
ISBN13: 9780521398343
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 13 1990
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.44 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the foremost living African writers, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa. The ways in which the African world perceives itself as a cultural entity, and the differences between its essential unity of experience and literary form and the sense of division pervading Western literature, are just some of the issues addressed. The centrality of ritual gives drama a prominent place in Soyinka's discussion, but he deals in equally illuminating ways with contemporary poetry and fiction. Above all, the fascinating insights in this book serve to highlight the importance of African criticism in addition to the literary and cultural achievements which are the subject of its penetrating analysis.

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