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