{"product_id":"conversations-with-wole-soyinka-paperback","title":"Conversations with Wole Soyinka - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBiodun Jeyifo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNobel Laureate Wole Soyinka is the most prominent writer from the African continent and one of the greatest living playwrights in the English language. His plays have been produced by the leading professional and repertory companies and stages in the English-speaking world including the National Theatre in Britain and the Lincoln Center in New York. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At the same time, Soyinka has been the most consistent campaigner against civil and human rights violations and abuses, on occasion using his drama, poetry, and essays to speak out powerfully and eloquently in defense of the freedom of ordinary citizens and of the conscience and autonomy of the African continent's writers and intellectuals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Featuring interviews with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Anthony Appiah, and the editor, among others, \u003ci\u003eConversations with Wole Soyinka\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection of Soyinka's interviews. The volume helps to clarify the place of Soyinka in the canon of modern African literature and the international currents of world literature in English of the last half century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Within the interviews, Soyinka is forthright, clear, and eloquent. He specifically addresses many facets of his writing and plumbs pressing issues of culture, society, and community in the present period of increasing globalization. With interviewers in Africa, America, and the United Kingdom he discusses the rise of extreme nationalist and fundamentalist movements and ideologies in his homeland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In particular, the volume throws welcome light on many of the difficulties and obscurities of form and \"message\" that both academic and non-academic readers find in the most ambitious works of Soyinka. Soyinka says, \"I never set out to be obscure. But complex subjects sometimes elicit from the writer complex treatments.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBiodun Jeyifo\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English at Cornell University. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eThe Popular Traveling Theatre of Nigeria\u003c\/i\u003e (1984) and \u003ci\u003eThe Truthful Lie\u003c\/i\u003e (1985). He has been published in such periodicals as \u003ci\u003eStanford Literature Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eResearch in African Literatures\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCallaloo\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 223\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 9 x 5.86 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47417462128861,"sku":"9781578063383","price":58.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/5ojjgTRvLN9781578063383.webp?v=1771222457","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/conversations-with-wole-soyinka-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}