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41. Die afrikanische Rezeption von
 
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42. Who's Afraid of Wole Soyinka?:
 
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43. In the House of Osubgo: Critical
 
44. Before our very eyes: Tribute
 
45. Cote cour, cote savane: Le theatre
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46. Wole Soyinka. The Invention &
 
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47. L'homme vivant de Wole Soyinka
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48. Ogun's Children: The Literature
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49. Index of Subjects, Proverbs, and
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50. IDANRE AND OTHER POEMS
 
$65.66
51. Strategic Transformations in Nigerian
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52. The Last Summer of Reason
53. Omnibus: " Ake " , " Season of
 
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54. ART, DIALOGUE, AND OUTRAGE: Essays
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55. Selected Poems: A Shuttle in the
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56. Contemporary African Plays: Death
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57. Soldiers in Hiding: A Novel (Rediscovery)
 
58. Three plays
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59. Ake: The Years of Childhood
 
60. Poems of Black Africa

41. Die afrikanische Rezeption von Brecht im Lichte der Literaturtheorien: Aufgezeigt am Beispiel von Wole Soyinkas "Opera Wonyosi" (European university studies. ... language and literature) (German Edition)
by Emmanuel Bationo
 Paperback: 157 Pages (1999)

Isbn: 3631343663
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42. Who's Afraid of Wole Soyinka?: Essays on Censorship (Studies in African Literature Series)
by Adewale Maja-Pearce
 Paperback: 128 Pages (1991-08-05)
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Asin: 0435909770
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Adewale Maja-Pearce analyzes contemporary African politics and society with absolute candor in these essays. ... Read more


43. In the House of Osubgo: Critical Essays on Wole Soyinka
 Hardcover: 288 Pages (1899-11-30)
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Asin: 0195033493
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Wole Soyinka is one of today's most admired and respected African playwrights.He commands a worldwide audience, was elected as a foreign honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1986 won the Nobel Prize for Literature. In this volume, twenty-six internationally recognized writers--including John Updike, Amiri Baraka, Martin Esslin, Derek Walcott, Bernard Knox, G.ilson Knight, David Bromwich, and James Olney--contribute essays on Soyinka and his work. All turn their considerable skills upon Soyinka's oeuvre, helping the reader to understand precisely how his subtle artistry works.This definitive volume is indispensable for students of Soyinka's work, opening up Soyinka's African literary world to the Western reader. ... Read more


44. Before our very eyes: Tribute to Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
 Unknown Binding: 213 Pages (1987)

Isbn: 978246144X
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45. Cote cour, cote savane: Le theatre de Wole Soyinka (Univers anglo-americain) (French Edition)
by Michele Lurdos
 Paperback: 133 Pages (1990)

Isbn: 2864803992
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46. Wole Soyinka. The Invention & The Detainee
Paperback: 100 Pages (2005-01-01)
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Asin: 1868883299
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This is the first formal publication of two early plays by Soyinka, The Invention (1959) and The Detainee (1965). Widely regarded as Soyinka's first play, The Invention reflects the obsession with race that marked the apartheid regime, and prophetically depicts the beginnings of the crumbling of the apartheid system in the futuristic setting of Johannesburg in 1976. It expresses the concern of the African diapsora with apartheid, which was felt to be an affront to the entire race. The Detainee is a radioplay. The plot foreshadows the writer's own imprisonment and his now familiar concerns about the vagaries of African politics. ... Read more


47. L'homme vivant de Wole Soyinka (French Edition)
by Etienne Galle
 Paperback: 270 Pages (1987)
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Asin: 2903871884
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48. Ogun's Children: The Literature and Politics of Wole Soyinka Since the Nobel
Paperback: 378 Pages (2003-12)
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Asin: 0865436673
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This collection of essays examines Soyinka’s post-Nobel works against the backdrop of his earlier works, especially the so-called "conservative and impossible plays of early Soyinka." The contributors are concerned with the political tenor and temperament of the post-Nobel years and the strong presence of the symbolism of Ogun, the creative energy of Soyinka’s Yoruba cosmology, during those years. These essays celebrate the achievements of Soyinka by acknowledging his Ogunian characters, which are often the vehicles and victims of a wayward political world.

The post-Nobel era also reveals a positive and consistent step toward the dictum, "justice is the first condition of humanity."Soyinka’s plays, From Zia with Love to Beatification of Area Boys, illustrate this intense quest for social and political justice in his home country, Nigeria. In his later works, there is a grand narrative about the Nigerian State, which the contributors privilege as they point out Soyinka’s ever-conscious attempt to reframe the dark hole of a very troubled collective world.

This volume of essays is distinct from all others because it is the first to make concrete the debate that exists between the pre-Nobel and post-Nobel works of Soyinka and the exchange of both streams of literary output within different periods of Nigerian society. ... Read more


49. Index of Subjects, Proverbs, and Themes in the Writings of Wole Soyinka: (Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Studies)
Hardcover: 333 Pages (1988-07-28)
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Asin: 0313257124
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"This index will facilitate in-depth research into 20 of Soyinka's major works including plays, novels, and poetry. . . . An important tool for anyone engaged in the study of Soyinka's writings." Choice ... Read more


50. IDANRE AND OTHER POEMS
by Wole SOYINKA
Paperback: 92 Pages (1987-01-01)
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Asin: 0809013525
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51. Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing: Orality & History in the Work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka & Ben Okri (Studies in African Literature)
by Ato Quayson
 Hardcover: 180 Pages (1997-06)
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Asin: 085255544X
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The author of this work takes issue with the prevalent use of "oral tradition" in the criticism of Europhone written literature as a cultural matrix. Instead, he proposes a view of literary tradition as the outcome of numerous acts of positioning in relation to indigenous resources. ... Read more


52. The Last Summer of Reason
by Tahar Djaout
Paperback: 176 Pages (2007-09-01)
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Asin: 0803215916
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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This elegant, haunting novel takes us deep into the world of bookstore owner Boualem Yekker. He lives in a country being overtaken by the Vigilant Brothers, a radically conservative party that seeks to control every element of life according to the laws of their stringent moral theology: no work of beauty created by human hands should rival the wonders of their god. Once-treasured art and literature are now despised.
 
Silently holding his ground, Boualem withstands the new regime, using the shop and his personal history as weapons against puritanical forces. Readers are taken into the lush depths of the bookseller's dreams, the memories of his now-empty family life, his passion for literature, then yanked back into the terror and drudgery of his daily routine by the vandalism, assaults, and death warrants that afflict him.
 
From renowned Algerian author Tahar Djaout we inherit a brutal and startling story that reveals how far an ordinary human being will go to maintain hope.
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5-0 out of 5 stars The Other Side of the Story
Tahar Djaout's story is a "must read" for a number of reasons. First, for the English reader, the author constructs with great vividness and emotion the fear, sadness, and personal questioning that occurs when political groups slowly invade human freedoms. There are many passages that created extrordinary mental pictures and a brief understanding of the overwhelming emotions involved when extreme groups threaten and intimidate basic human freedoms.
Second, this book provides important insight to the other side of the battle against extremism.Few understand or even think about the places in the world where extremism has taken hold and what that means to the people and the culture of that country. Djaout's novel walks the reader through the emotions of uncertainty, questioning, anger, and fear.
The Last Summer of Reason provides a larger scope for the conflict between the world and extremists. The Western culture is not the only culture under attack - other cultures have been smothered under, where extremism has taken hold. If books are carriers of civilizations, then Tahar Djauout's novel carries the Western reader to a civilization struggling survive and to the other side of the conflict.

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5-0 out of 5 stars Poetry in a Desolate Time
What a terrible review of this book by Publishers Weekly (at the top)."The concept of a culture in which art, beauty and expression are totally repressed is an interesting notion....."This kind of repression is much more than a notion.Look at today alone, with both Christian and Islamic extremism worldwide, thanks to the U.S. Empire's Christian Crusade against Muslims (Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza, Bosnia, on and on and on.) Both sides repress art, music, education and thinking.There is no need for the author to elaborate the history of the unnamed country in this novel. This is a book of poetry, of memories, of the present day horror of life, of profound loneliness in a country run by religious extremists.I think you will find much to connect with.

5-0 out of 5 stars A lucid, harrowing, testimonial
For anyone who fears the threat of religious theocracy, whether in foreign lands or in our own, Djaout's masterful novel is a must read. His stunning prose exposes how fragile our civil liberties are in light of those who wish to dictate public policy by religious faith.For this brilliant illumination, Tahar Djaout was murdered by Islamic fundementalists. When asked why he committed the murder, one of Djaout's pious murders said "[because Djaout] wielded a fearsome pen that could have an effect on Islamic sectors."

When morality is judged by men who cloak reason in dogma, superstition, and faith, this tragic outcome seems inevitable.This novel, and Djaout's untimely and brutal murder, attest to all too familiar fact.

5-0 out of 5 stars Unforgettable
It's been ages since I've read Djaout's "The Last Summer of Reason" but as time marches forward and summer is just behind me, I think of this masterful, poetic story and how it affected me as a reader.The interior life of a man I would never know and with whom I would have gladly shared bread made me revisit the power of the written word and its impact on its readership. I beheld the book, in light, yet others destroyed not only its potential conclusion but its writer.Djaout, with some possible prescience, tells the tale of societal alienation of one man, and brings all of us into the potential spotlight of what is moral and who is immoral.

5-0 out of 5 stars An Unfinished Masterpiece
It is obvious that this book was still in manuscript form when it was discovered. My belief is that the author would have edited out certain passages, tightened up some of the prose, and fleshed out what is now only lightly sketched. Still, as a reader, I felt extraordinarily privileged in being able to read what was here. The novel is chilling and achingly beautiful. There are turns of phrase that are breath-taking, and there are descriptions of totalitarianism that caused my chest to constrict in dread. Reading this book is like reading novels written in the wake of fascism or Stalinism--the idea that all is controlled, no one is to be trusted, the only safety is within one's own head. But it is the meditations on books--on what books mean and how they mean--that is the true gem in this book. And the comparison of how one Book (be it Bible, Koran, or Little Red Book) can be given such power that it must eliminate all competition that comes from other books. And his thoughts on gender and what totalitarianism does to sexual relationships is deeply moving. There are so many things in this book to talk about. I grieve that its author is not around to participate in those discussions. ... Read more


53. Omnibus: " Ake " , " Season of Anomy "
by Wole Soyinka
Paperback: 550 Pages (1994-03-17)

Isbn: 0099386615
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54. ART, DIALOGUE, AND OUTRAGE: Essays on Literature and Culture
by Wole Soyinka
 Hardcover: 305 Pages (1994-05-03)
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Asin: 0679400656
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55. Selected Poems: A Shuttle in the Crypt, Idanre, Mandela's Earth
by Wole Soyinka
Paperback: 256 Pages (2002-02-21)
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Asin: 0413764605
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56. Contemporary African Plays: Death and the King's Horseman, Woza Albert!, Anowa, The Chattering and the Song, The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco, and The Other War (Methuen Drama)
by Wole Soyinka, Percy Mtwa, Ama Aidoo
Paperback: 382 Pages (2003-09-01)
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Asin: 0413723305
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Contemporary African Plays, edited with introductions by Martin Banham and Jane Plastow of Leeds University, is a collection of some of the most exciting plays from the past twenty-five years of African theatre, spanning the continent's rich and disparate regional and cultural traditions. Included in this collection are three of the most significant plays of this century plus three brilliant plays which will be new to Western audiences:

Death and the King's Horseman, a masterpiece from the Nobel-prize-winning Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka.

Woza Albert!, a skillful and devastating political satire from South Africa by the writers/performers Percy Mtwa and Mbongeni Ngema and the late Market Theatre director Barney Simon.

Anowa, a powerful tale from Ghana that tells of a woman's plight and oppression by Ama Ata Aidoo.

The Chattering and the Song, an ingenious radical drama from the popular Nigerian playwright Femi Osofisan.

The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco, a witty political allegory about post-colonial Zimbabwe by Andrew Whaley.

The Other War, an extraordinary insight into Africa's longest liberation war, by the Eritrean playwright Alemseged Tesfai.

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57. Soldiers in Hiding: A Novel (Rediscovery)
by Richard Wiley
Paperback: 200 Pages (2006-09-20)
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Asin: 097663113X
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It’s Tokyo, 1941. Teddy Maki and Jimmy Yakamoto are Japanese-American friends and jazz musicians playing Tokyo’s lively nightclub scene. Stranded in Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Teddy and Jimmy are drafted into the Japanese army and sent to fight against American troops in the Philippines. Their perilous attempts to remain neutral in a conflict where their loyalties are deeply divided are shattered when Jimmy is killed by the commanding officer for refusing to shoot an American prisoner. The deed then falls to Teddy. Thirty years later, Teddy is married to Jimmy’s widow, father to his son, a star on Japanese TV — and still wrestling with the guilt over Jimmy's death.

Winner of the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Best American Fiction, Soldiers in Hiding is a haunting portrayal of war’s lingering emotional burdens.This revised edition features a new preface by the author and an introduction by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka.
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58. Three plays
by Wole Soyinka
 Unknown Binding: 118 Pages (1963)

Asin: B0007ITFWY
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59. Ake: The Years of Childhood
by Wole Soyinka
Paperback: 236 Pages (2000-10-05)
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Asin: 0413751902
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60. Poems of Black Africa
 Hardcover: 378 Pages (1975-05)
list price: US$12.95
Isbn: 0809077477
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