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Akeby Wole SoyinkaISBN 009980090X (0-09-980090-X)
Softcover, Random House
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The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgivenessby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0195134281 (0-19-513428-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness'Book summary:When Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's The Open Sore of a Continent appeared in 1996, it received rave reviews in the national media. Now comes Soyinka's powerful sequel to that fearless and passionate book, The Burden of Memory.
Where Open Sore offered a critique of African nationhood and a searing indictment of the Nigerian military and its repression of human and civil rights, The Burden of Memory considers all of Africa--indeed, all the world--as it poses the next logical question: Once repression stops, is reconciliation between oppressor and victim possible? In the face of centuries long devastations wrought on the African continent and her Diaspora by slavery, colonialism, Apartheid and the manifold faces of racism what form of recompense could possibly be adequate? In a voice as eloquent and humane as it is forceful, Soyinka examines this fundamental question as he illuminates the principle duty and "near intolerable burden" of memory to bear the record of injustice. In so doing, he challenges notions of simple forgiveness, of confession and absolution, as strategies for social healing. Ultimately, he turns to art--poetry, music, painting--as one source that may nourish the seed of reconciliation, art as the generous vessel that can hold together the burden of memory and the hope of forgiveness.
Based on Soyinka's Stewart-McMillan lectures delivered at the Du Bois Institute at Harvard, The Burden of Memory speaks not only to those concerned specifically with African politics, but also to anyone seeking the path to social justice through some of history's most inhospitable terrain. [via]More editions of The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness:
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Collected Playsby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0192811363 (0-19-281136-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Plays'Book summary:'"The Lion and the Jewel" alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' - "The Times". The ironic development and consequences of 'progress' may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works included in this second volume of Wole Soyinka's plays. "The Lion and the Jewel" shows an ineffectual assault on past tradition soundly defeated. In "Kongi's Harvest", however, the pretensions of Kongi's regime are also fatal. The denouement points the way forward. "The Two Brother Jero" plays pursue that way, the comic 'propheteering' of the earlier play giving way to the sardonic reality of "Jero's Metamorphosis". "Madmen and Specialists", Soyinka's most pessimistic play, concerns the physical, mental, and moral destruction of modern civil war. [via]
Dance of the Forestby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0199110824 (0-19-911082-4)
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Early Poemsby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0195119703 (0-19-511970-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Poems'Book summary:Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Prize laureate and Nigerian exile, has been described by The New York Times as "one of the most compelling literary voices in black Africa." This collection brings together Idanre and Other Poems and A Shuttle in the Crypt, two powerful and distinctive volumes of Soyinka's early poetry.
The first set of poems, Idanre and Other Poems, traces the author's increasingly radical political awareness and the growth of his appreciation for Africa's indigenous cultural traditions. The second set of poems, A Shuttle in the Crypt, was written by Soyinka after his arrest in 1967 by the Nigerian government for writings sympathetic to secessionist Biafra and placement in solitary confinement for twenty-two months. These poems, penned during his imprisonment, often in the dark, on cigarette packs and toilet paper, describe the loss of human contact and ponder the future of Africa continuously at war with itself.
Taken as a whole, Soyinka's early poetry may be viewed as a valiant effort to reconcile the mysterious legacy of the old with the often harsh realities of an entire continent's abrupt entry into the twentieth century. [via]More editions of Early Poems:
The Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Sagaby Wole Soyinka , Daniel Orowole FagunwaISBN 0175112886 (0-17-511288-6)
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The Interpretersby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0006542298 (0-00-654229-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Man Diedby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0099352001 (0-09-935200-1)
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Man Died : Prison Notes of Wole Soyinkaby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0099415011 (0-09-941501-1)
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The Man Died:Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinkaby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0060139722 (0-06-013972-2)
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The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisisby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0195119215 (0-19-511921-5)
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Season of Anomyby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0099538903 (0-09-953890-3)
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Soyinkaby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0195215362 (0-19-521536-2)
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Soyinka Omnibusby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0099386615 (0-09-938661-5)
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Transitionby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0195075277 (0-19-507527-7)
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Wole Soyinka, the Lion and the Jewel: A Critical Viewby Martin Banham, Yolande Cantù, Wole SoyinkaISBN 000326341X (0-00-326341-X)
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