My Wish Lists Login / Join

Myth, Literature and the African World

By: No Information Available

Write A Review

Paperback | 22 April 1991

At a Glance

Paperback
184 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
21.59 x 13.97 x 1.07

Paperback

RRP $31.95

$31.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $7.94 with

Ships in 5 to 7 business days

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.

Industry Reviews

'... the best book on contemporary African literature available.' New Society

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $79.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.

For more info please visit our Help Centre.

You Can Find This Book In

Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies

This product is categorised by

Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies

Preface
Morality and aesthetics in the ritual archetype
Drama and the African world-view
Ideology and the social vision (1): the religious factor
Ideology and the social vision (2): the secular ideal
Appendix
Index
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

Myth, Literature and the African World

At a Glance

Paperback

Industry Reviews

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in General Literary Studies

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea

Journeys through Ancient Literature

Twelfth Night

No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Editions - Shakespeare Side-by-Side Plain English

The Bookseller at the End of the World

Four Thousand Weeks

Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.

Othello

No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Editions - Shakespeare Side-by-Side Plain English

Discourses and Selected Writings

Penguin Classics

Freedom, Only Freedom

The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani

How to Read a Book

A Touchstone book

The Monk

Penguin Classics

The Divine Comedy

East of Eden

(Penguin Orange Collection)

Mythology (75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition)

Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition

Major Works of the Stoics (Boxed Set)

Meditations, Letters from a Stoic, Discourses and Selected Writings

On Writing

A Memoir of the Craft

The Prince

Penguin Pocket Hardbacks

The Count of Monte Cristo

Cover design by Coralie Bickford-Smith

The Voynich Manuscript

The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set

Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940

Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

Writing and Reading Environmental Disorder in Ancient Texts

Exploring Plural Identity Through Creative-Critical Autoethnography

Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities

Unsettling Extinction

Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities

The English Modernist Novel as Political Theology

Challenging the Nation

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation

Bloomsbury Handbooks

This product is categorised by