{"product_id":"wole-soyinka-tragic-classicism-hardcover","title":"Wole Soyinka: Tragic Classicism - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam Lecznar\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLaura Jansen\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book presents a new way of looking at Wole Soyinka's engagement with the classical past. \u003c\/b\u003eNigerian 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdam 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Lecznar \u003c\/b\u003eis an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London, UK. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e Dionysus after Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Literature and Thought\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eClassicisms in the Black Atlantic \u003c\/i\u003e(2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 03, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51773919691040,"sku":"9781350249042","price":198.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/06347c06034a055bb94d37c4896d2f72_cae444d3-07cb-497c-82e7-0cd6b7f31ac8.jpg?v=1780435864","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/wole-soyinka-tragic-classicism-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}