Writing violence: Problematizing nationhood in Wole Soyinka's A Shuttle in the Crypt

Wole Soyinka’s A Shuttle in the Crypt is a distillation of deep-seated anger against what he perceived as his “unjustified confinement” of twenty-five months by the administration of General Yakubu Gowon during the Nigerian Civil War between 1967 and 1970. Nigeria’s haunting, turbulent political his...

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Main Author: Niyi Akingbe
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association 2017-03-01
Series:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
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Online Access:https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/1900