| Myth, Literature and the African World Contributor(s): Soyinka, Wole (Author), Wole, Soyinka (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0521398347 ISBN-13: 9780521398343 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1990 Annotation: One of the foremost living African writers here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa. In 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 issued addressed. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | African |
| Dewey: 896 |
| LCCN: 90034406 |
| Series: Canto |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.44" W x 8.5" (0.51 lbs) 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |