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Politics
- Cover (Page 1) - Half-title (Page 3) - Series-title (Page 5) - Title (Page 7) - Copyright (Page 8) - Dedication (Page 9) - Contents (Page 11) - Preface (Page 13) - Chronology (Page 27) - Abbreviations (Page 35) - CHAPTER 1 ‘Representative’ and unrepresentable modalities of the self: the gnostic, worldly and radical humanism of Wole… (Page 37) - CHAPTER 2 Tragic mythopoesis as radical postcolonial discourse: critical and theoretical writings (Page 77) - CHAPTER 3 The "drama of existence": sources and scope (Page 119) - CHAPTER 4 Ritual, anti-ritual and the festival complex in Soyinka's dramatic parables (Page 156) - CHAPTER 5 The ambiguous freight of visionary mythopoesis: fictional and nonfictional prose works (Page 203) - CHAPTER 6 Poetry, versification and the fractured burdens of commitment (Page 256) - CHAPTER 7 "Things fall together": Wole Soyinka in his Own Write (Page 312) - Notes (Page 325) - 1. 'REPRESENTATIVE' AND UNREPRESENTABLE MODALITIES OF THE SELF: THE GNOSTIC, WORLDLY AND RADICAL HUMANISM OF WOLE SOYINKA (Page 325) - 2. TRAGIC MYTHOPOESIS AS POSTCOLONIAL DISCOURSE – CRITICAL AND THEORETICAL WRITINGS (Page 330) - 3. THE 'DRAMA OF EXISTENCE': SOURCES AND SCOPE (Page 333) - 4. RITUAL, ANTI-RITUAL AND THE FESTIVAL COMPLEX IN SOYINKA'S DRAMATIC PARABLES (Page 335) - 5. THE AMBIGUOUS FREIGHT OF VISIONARY MYTHOPOESIS: FICTIONAL AND NONFICTIONAL PROSE WORKS (Page 337) - 6. POETRY, VERSIFICATION AND THE FRACTURED BURDENS OF COMMITMENT (Page 339) - 7 "THINGS FALL TOGETHER": WOLE SOYINKA IN HIS OWN WRITE (Page 341) - Bibliography (Page 343) - PUBLISHED WORKS BT WHOLE SOYINKA (Page 343) - UNCOLLECTED ESSAYS AND ARTICLES (Page 344) - WORKS CITED (Page 344) - Index (Page 353)