“Just What Gods Do You Serve, If Any?”: Wole Soyinka’s Chronicles and the Destruction of Postcolonial Reason

IF 0.4 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

English Academy Review-Southern African Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/10131752.2022.2111067

D. Attwell

引用次数: 0

Abstract

This year, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka published his first novel in forty-eight years, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth (2021). His previous novels were The Interpreters ([1965] 1978), and Season of Anomy (1973). Fiction is not Soyinka’s most favoured medium. He is a dramatist first as well as being a poet, essayist, and memoirist in a career whose creative energies have never waned. The fact that it has taken him half a century to return to the novel, specifically, creates an irresistible opportunity: to compare and contrast two quite different literary and historical moments in the career of one of Africa’s great writers.

查看原文本刊更多论文

“你到底敬拜什么神?”:《索因卡的编年史与后殖民理性的毁灭》

今年，诺贝尔奖得主沃勒·索因卡出版了他48年来的第一部小说——《地球上最幸福的人的国度》(2021年)。他之前的小说有《口译员》([1965]1978)和《反常季节》(1973)。小说并不是索因卡最喜欢的媒介。他首先是一位剧作家，同时也是一位诗人、散文家和回忆录作者，他的创作活力从未减弱。事实上，他花了半个世纪的时间才重新回到小说中，这创造了一个不可抗拒的机会:比较和对比非洲伟大作家生涯中两个截然不同的文学和历史时刻。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

English Academy Review-Southern African Journal of English Studies LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

CiteScore

0.70

自引率

0.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： The English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (EAR) is the journal of the English Academy of Southern Africa. In line with the Academy’s vision of promoting effective English as a vital resource and of respecting Africa’s diverse linguistic ecology, it welcomes submissions on language as well as educational, philosophical and literary topics from Southern Africa and across the globe. In addition to refereed academic articles, it publishes creative writing and book reviews of significant new publications as well as lectures and proceedings. EAR is an accredited journal that is published biannually by Unisa Press (South Africa) and Taylor & Francis. Its editorial policy is governed by the Council of the English Academy of Southern Africa who also appoint the Editor-in-Chief for a three-year term of office. Guest editors are appointed from time to time on an ad hoc basis.