Art, Dialogue and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture

by Boidon Jeyifo (Introduction), Wole Soyinda (Author)

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  1993

  $38.29

  This volume of essays, articles, addresses and interventions by the Nigerian poet, playwright and novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, contains work written over a period of some 25 years and includes much rare material. The introduction by Boidon Jeyifo sets the essays in the context of the development of Soyinka's work, thus providing a comprehensive insight into the intellectual background of his creative writing, and establishes the relation between Soyinka's ideas and contemporary thought in Africa. Soyinka's plays include The Jero Plays , The Road and Madmen and Specialists . His most recently published works are From Zia with Love and A Scourge of Hyacinths .