Achebe Or Soyinka?: A Study in ContrastsHans Zell Publishers, 1996 - 188 páginas This is a controversial new study on Africa's two most widely read and, arguably, her finest writers. Despite their shared levels of prestige, each represents a distinct pole of Nigerian writing. On the one hand, there's Soyinka, the playful imagist steeped in the myth and magic of his native Yoruba culture; at the other end of the spectrum, Achebe's internalized Igbo cultural traditions. Kole Omotoso - himself a prolific writer and prize-winning Nigerian novelist - explores and defines the differences in style, background, and vision between the two men. Individual chapters describe their childhood, their cultural influences, political involvement, their stand during the Nigerian civil war, their attitudes to the world at large, their contribution to the language debate in African literatures, and there is also a chapter devoted to Achebe's and Soyinka's responses to their critics. The works of Achebe and Soyinka are considered against three main agendas: the pan-African agenda, the Nigerian nation-state agenda, and the ethnic national agenda. Despite their shared nationality, their contribution towards creating 'a community of sensibilities' in Nigeria is questioned by the author in terms of the instability that has bedevilled Nigeria and, by extension, other African countries. |
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... British conquest did not recognise treachery as an issue in the coming of the white man to Yorubaland . Yoruba compromise with the British conquest came in two stages . There was an initial stage of complete rejec- tion , under the ...
... British conquest did not recognise treachery as an issue in the coming of the white man to Yorubaland . Yoruba compromise with the British conquest came in two stages . There was an initial stage of complete rejec- tion , under the ...
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... British compared with that of the Yoruba . It also shows that the Yoruba educated elite expect to benefit from the British con- quest , and that the Yoruba expect to abandon their traditional religion for the religion of their ...
... British compared with that of the Yoruba . It also shows that the Yoruba educated elite expect to benefit from the British con- quest , and that the Yoruba expect to abandon their traditional religion for the religion of their ...
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... British , had bided their time , accepted British rule and worked it in such a manner that they came out on top of the other ethnic nationalities competing for political power within the boundaries of Nigeria . It is this victory that ...
... British , had bided their time , accepted British rule and worked it in such a manner that they came out on top of the other ethnic nationalities competing for political power within the boundaries of Nigeria . It is this victory that ...
Contenido
Living on the Seam of Two Worlds | 1 |
The Nigerian Elite Achebe and Soyinka | 13 |
Achebe Soyinka and the Gods | 45 |
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Achebe and Soyinka Achebe and Wole Achebe's African countries African cultures African languages African literatures African writers Anthills Arrow of God aspect Awolowo Biafra Bibliography British Chinua Achebe Christian Church civil colonial community of sensibilities Creation Day critics of African economic educated elite encounter essay ethnic nationalities European and North European languages existence experience fact father Ghana guage Hausa Hausa-Fulani Heinemann Educational Books Hopes and Impediments Ibadan University Press ibid Igbo language Imam independence individual insist intellectuals Irish Isara Islam issue King's Horseman Kwame Nkrumah Lagos Lindfors literary lives London Longer at Ease Longman Mbari minority ethnic nationalities missionaries Mphahlele nation-state Ngugi wa Thiong'o Nigeria Nigerian writers Niyi North American novel Obafemi Ogoni Osundare Ousmane pan-African play poems poetry political position problem publication published religion role Saro-Wiwa Savannah society Sokoto Caliphate songs struggle theatre tion traditional western Wole Soyinka Yorubaland