Wole Soyinka: Tragic Classicism by Lecznar, Adam
Wole Soyinka: Tragic Classicism by Lecznar, Adam

Wole Soyinka: Tragic Classicism

This book presents a new way of looking at Wole Soyinka's engagement with the classical past. Nigerian...
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Author: Adam Lecznar
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Language: English
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Wole Soyinka: Tragic Classicism by Lecznar, Adam

Wole Soyinka: Tragic Classicism

$377.50
Wole Soyinka: Tragic Classicism by Lecznar, Adam

Wole Soyinka: Tragic Classicism

$377.50
Author: Adam Lecznar
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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This book presents a new way of looking at Wole Soyinka's engagement with the classical past. Nigerian author and activist Wole Soyinka was the first Black African author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1986), and his oeuvre has become seminal to postcolonial literature. The frequent references to Greece and Rome that appear across Soyinka's writings, most explicitly in his 1973 play The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite, have often received short shrift in scholarship on the author. At best, these references have been understood as elements of Soyinka's prodigiously inclusive humanism. At worst, Soyinka's critics argue that the invocations of a Graeco-Roman past testify to the neocolonial cultural affinities that make Soyinka a problematic figure in postcolonial literary history.

Adam Lecznar challenges these readings, arguing that Soyinka's authorial outlook is informed by a hybrid form of classicism in which he aligns the legacy of Greece and Rome with the African cultural heritage to form a narrative of literary and cultural value that looks beyond the ancient Mediterranean. This book turns a spotlight on how Soyinka's appeals to Greece and Rome inform his reflections on Africa's ancient past, Yoruba belief, and the modern significance of tragedy. Lecznar contends that Soyinka's notion of classicism is not solely dependent on the memory of the Graeco-Roman past. Rather, it draws innovatively on a global cultural heritage to advance revolutionary and futural narratives of history and identity.

Author: Adam Lecznar
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 10/03/2024
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9781350249042

About the Author
Adam Lecznar is an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London, UK. He is the author of Dionysus after Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Literature and Thought (2020) and co-editor of Classicisms in the Black Atlantic (2020).
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