Forest
of A Thousand Daemons
, his translation from Yoruba of D.O. Fagunwa’s
Ogboju
Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale
.
For important theoretical works on this problem, see Rosalind Coward
and John Ellis,
Language and Materialism
, London: Routledge and Kegan
Paul,
, and Michel Peucheux,
Language, Semantics and Ideology
, New York:
St. Martins Press,
.
Charles Larson,
The Emergence of African Fiction
, Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press,
.
One of the most acerbic critics of Soyinka as a novelist is Eustace Palmer in
his
The Growth of the African Novel
, London: Heinemann Educational Books,
.
“Wole Soyinka,” interview with Jane Wilkinson, in Jeyifo (ed.),
Conversations
with Wole Soyinka
,
.
That first sentence reads: “Although everybody in Dukana was happy at
first.” Ken Saro-Wiwa,
Sozaboy, A Novel in Rotten English
, White Plains, NY:
Longman,
.
The reactions provoked by the book in Nigeria have been well-documented
in John Agetua (ed.),
When the Man Died
.
One of the best books on the war and the period is John De St. Jorre,
The
Nigerian Civil War
, London: Hodder and Stoughton,
.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o,
Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary
, London: Heinemann,
.
See in particular the pieces by Adamu Ciroma and Sobo Sowemimo in
Agetua,
When the Man Died
.
Of these, see the pieces by Dan Izevbaye and Kole Omotoso in Agetua,
When the Man Died
.
Kole Omotoso has explored this issue in his book,
Achebe or Soyinka: A Study
in Contrasts
,
–
.
Derek Wright,
Wole Soyinka Revisited
,
–
, especially insists on this point.
For important theoretical works on allegory which explore aspects of this
issue, see H. Berger, Jr.,
The Allegorical Temper
,
and Angus Fletcher,
Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode
,
.
D.S. Izevbaye, “Soyinka’s Black Orpheus,” in Gibbs,
Critical Perspectives on
Wole Soyinka
.
“The Representation of Women: the Example of Soyinka’s
Ak´e
,” in Molara
Ogundipe-Leslie,
Re-creating Ourselves: African Women and Critical Transforma-
tions
, Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press,
.
Notes to pages
–
It is noteworthy that except for Baroka in
The Lion and the Jewel
, marital
couples in Soyinka’s works are usually monogamous, the prime examples
being the Reverend and Mrs. Erinjobi in
Camwood on the Leaves
and Makuri
and Alu in
The Swamp Dwellers
.
Michel Foucault,
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of
Reason
, New York: Pantheon Books,
.
See Michel Peucheux,
Language, Semantics and Ideology
, New York: St. Martins
Press,
.
Wande Abimbola,
Ifa: An Exposition of Ifa literary Corpus
, Ibadan University
Press,
.
Biodun Jeyifo, “Wole Soyinka and the Tropes of Disalienation,” in Soyinka,
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