Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
. Significantly, the only play of Soyinka
to have received publication as a text
before
any stage performance of it is
Death and the King’s Horseman
.
Among Soyinka’s more notable acting credits are his playing of Forest Head
in his own staging of
A Dance of the Forests
for the Nigerian Independence
celebrations in
; his playing of Kongi in the filming of
Kongi’s Harvest
in
; and his playing of the role of Patrice Lumumba in Paris in a
French-language version of Conor Cruise O’Brien’s
Murderous Angels
in
.
“Interview with John Agetua,” in Biodun Jeyifo (ed.),
Conversations with Wole
Soyinka
, Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi,
,
–
.
See Immanuel Wallerstein,
Africa and the Politics of Unity: An Analysis of a
Contemporary Social Movement
, New York: Vintage Books,
.
See Femi Osofisan, “Wole Soyinka and a Living Dramatist: A Playwright’s
Encounter with Soyinka’s Drama,” in Maja-Pearce (ed.),
Wole Soyinka: An
Appraisal
.
Annemarie Heywood, “The Fox’s Dance: the Staging of Soyinka’s Plays,”
in Gibbs,
Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
.
Eldred Jones,
The Writings of Wole Soyinka
, London: Heinemann,
; Gerald
Moore,
Wole Soyinka
, London: Evans,
; Adrian Roscoe,
Mother Is Gold: A
Study of West African Literature
, Cambridge University Press,
.
In a private conversation with the author of this study.
I owe this perception of echoes of the John the Baptist-Salome story to Abiola
Irele. This resonance is apparently so obvious that to date, it has simply gone
unremarked in all critical and scholarly commentary on
Kongi’s Harvest
.
Michel Foucault,
Language, Counter-Memory, Practice
, Ithaca, NY: Cornell Uni-
versity Press,
, especially Part Three, “Practice, Knowledge and Power”;
Vaclav Havel,
The Power of the Powerless
, John Keane (ed.), Armonk, NY: M.E.
Sharpe,
.
For a study of this aspect of Genet’s dramaturgy, see Laura Oswald,
Jean
Genet and the Semiotics of Performance
, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University
Press,
.
Mary David,
Wole Soyinka: A Quest for Renewal
, Madras, India: B.I. Publica-
tions,
.
Among these are Florence Stratton, “Periodic Embodiments: A Ubiquitous
Trope in African Men’s Writing,” Molara Ogundipe, “The Representation
of Women: the Example of Soyinka’s
Ak´e
,” in Molara Ogundipe-Leslie,
Re-creating Ourselves: African Women and Critical Transformations
, Trenton, NJ:
Africa World Press,
; and Carole Boyce Davis, “Maidens, Mistresses
and Matrons: Feminine Images in Selected Soyinka Works,” in
Ngambika:
Studies of Women in African Literature
, Ann Adams Graves and Carole Boyce
Davis (eds), Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press,
.
Notes to pages
–
“Neo-Tarzanism: the Poetics of Pseudo-Tradition,” in Soyinka,
Art, Dialogue
and Outrage
.
Joachim Fiebach, “Wole Soyinka and Heine Muller: Different Cultural Con-
texts, Similar Approaches,” in Jeyifo,
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