Myth, Literature and the African World

基本信息

Paperback: 184 pages

Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Canto Ed edition (12 Jan. 2008)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0521398347

ISBN-13: 978-0521398343

Product Dimensions: 140 x 211 x 25mm | 290g

書籍簡介

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.

作者簡介

沃萊·索因卡（Wole Soyinka，1934—），尼日利亞劇作家、詩人、小説家、評論家。他一生寫了30多部作品，絕大多數諷刺非洲的社會文化風氣和社會弊端。1934年出生於尼日利亞西部阿貝奧庫塔約魯巴族一個學校督學的家庭。他先在尼日利亞伊巴丹大學接受教育。1954年，他二十歲時，進英國利茲大學，專攻英語。1986年獲諾貝爾文學獎， [1] 成為第一位獲此殊榮的非洲作家。