Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism Book

	Preface
	Chronology
	List of abbreviations
1	'Representative' and unrepresentable modalities of the self: the gnostic, worldly and radical humanism of Wole Soyinka	1
2	Tragic mythopoesis as postcolonial discourse - critical and theoretical writings	41
3	The "drama of existence": sources and scope	83
4	Ritual, anti-ritual and the festival complex in Soyinka's dramatic parables	120
5	The ambiguous freight of visionary mythopoesis: fictional and nonfictional prose works	167
6	Poetry, versification and the fractured burdens of commitment	220
7	"Things fall together": Wole Soyinka in his Own Write	276
	Notes	289
	Bibliography	307
	Index	317