Perspectives on Wole Soyinka: Freedom and Complexity Book

	Introduction
	Tradition and the Yoruba Writer: D. O. Fagunwa, Amos Tutuola, and Wole Soyinka	3
	Poetics and the Mythic Imagination	27
	The Fox's Dance: The Staging of Soyinka's Plays	41
	The Complexity of Freedom	51
	Being, the Will, and the Semantics of Death	62
	Blood and Wine: Tragic Ritual from Aeschylus to Soyinka	77
	Soyinka and His Radical Critics: A Review	91
	Wole Soyinka and the Tropes of Disalienation	104
	Wole Soyinka and Heine Muller: Different Cultural Contexts, Similar Approaches	128
	Periodic Embodiments: A Ubiquitous Trope in African Men's Writing	140
	Myth, Literature, and the African World	157
	Wole Soyinka and the Living Dramatist: A Playwright's Encounter with the Drama of Wole Soyinka	172
	Wole Soyinka and the Atunda Ideal: A Reading of Soyinka's Poetry	187
	The Space of Transformations: Theory, Myth, and Ritual in the Work of Wole Soyinka	201
	Index	237