Wole Soyinka: Postcolonial Culture and Writing
by Song Zhiming
About This Novel
As Africa's first "Nobel Prize" winner, "Africa's Shakespeare" and "the father of English African drama", Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka's writing has typical post-colonial cultural characteristics. His "black skin, white mask" syndrome manifests itself in the fact that he is both rooted in African cultural resources and fused with European literary traditions since ancient Greece, resisting colonial authority as a "cultural hybrid". Soyinka constructed the "Yoruba mythical world" from the resources of his own national religious mythology, formed his own unique "mythological aesthetics", and creatively created a new form of "ritual drama". Soyinka is also a thinker and political activist who emphasizes the "political intervention" of literature. His works and cultural treatises are of distinct realistic and political nature, and he deeply reflects on the core issues of post-colonial Africa such as colonial history, political tyranny, language integration and independence.
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