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Myth, Literature and the African World

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Availability:In StockContributor:Wole Soyinka, Soyinka WoleSeries:CantoPublish date:1990-11-30Pages:184
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9780521398343ISBN-10:521398347UPC:9780521398343Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:AfricanSize:8.50 x 5.44 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.5115Product ID:SCRTRQQC0W
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9780521398343ISBN-10:521398347UPC:9780521398343Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:AfricanSize:8.50 x 5.44 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.5115Product ID:SCRTRQQC0W
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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