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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821306803321

Autore

Bello Hakeem

Titolo

The interpreters : ritual, violence and social regeneration in the writing of Wole Soyinka / / Hakeem Bello

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ibadan, Nigeria : , : Kraft Books Limited, , 2014

©2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Disciplina

822

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Preface; Contents; Part One - The Dramas; Chapter 1 - The ritual imperative in African Drama; Chapter 2 - Ritual as form and matter in the drama of communal regeneration; Chapter 3 - Ritual as framework in the drama of the returning cycle; Chapter 4 - Ritual as form in the drama of liberation; Chapter 5 - Technical and aesthetic constants of ritual drama; Part Two - The Novels ; Chapter 6 - The Anjonu Metaphor: Towards a functional man-cosmos organization; Chapter 7 - Aesthetics: A dialectical paradigm

Chapter 8 - Social and ideological commitments: The dividing lines in the novels of Wole SoyinkaChapter 9 - Conclusion. Ritual, violence and social transformations: A lion or a jewel?; Index; Back cover