Suggested Reading

The Changing Mask of Fear

Jessica Benjamin (1995), Like Subjects, Love Objects, Yale University Press
Eldred Durosimi Jones (3rd ed., 1988), The Writing of Wole Soyinka, James Currey
Sigmund Freud (1919), 'The "Uncanny"', in The Penguin Freud Library, No 14.
Wole Soyinka (1972), A Shuttle in the Crypt, Rex Collings/Methuen
Wole Soyinka (1976), Myth, Literature and the African World, Cambridge University Press
D.W. Winnicott (1971), Playing and Reality, Routledge
D.W Winnicott (1986), Home is Where We Start From, Penguin

Power and Freedom

Eldred Durosimi Jones (3rd ed., 1988), The Writing of Wole Soyinka, James Currey
Sigmund Freud (1919), 'The "Uncanny"', in The Penguin Freud Library, No 14.
Wole Soyinka (1972), A Shuttle in the Crypt, Rex Collings/Methuen

Rhetoric That Binds And Blinds

Deborah Cameron (1995), Verbal Hygiene, Routledge
Eldred Durosimi Jones (3rd ed., 1988), The Writing of Wole Soyinka, James Currey
Jack Mapanje (1991), Of Chameleons and Gods, Heinemann
Jack Mapanje (1993), The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison, Heinemann
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (1981), Detained, Heinemann
George Orwell (1949), Nineteen Eighty-Four, Penguin
Wole Soyinka (1971), Madmen and Specialists, Methuen
Wole Soyinka (1972), A Shuttle in the Crypt, Rex Collings/Methuen

Quest For Dignity

Eldred Durosimi Jones (3rd ed., 1988), The Writing of Wole Soyinka, James Currey
Jack Mapanje (1991), Of Chameleons and Gods, Heinemann
Jack Mapanje (1993), The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison, Heinemann
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (1981), Detained, Heinemann
George Orwell (1949), Nineteen Eighty-Four, Penguin
Wole Soyinka (1971), Madmen and Specialists, Methuen
Wole Soyinka (1972), A Shuttle in the Crypt, Rex Collings/Methuen
Wole Soyinka (1976), Myth, Literature and the African World, Cambridge University Press
Dennis Walder (ed., 1990), Literature in the Modern World, Oxford University Press. (This contains relevant essays on African literature by Achebe, and by Chinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie, and Ihechukwu Madubuike, as well as an extract from Soyinka's Myth, Literature and the African World. It also includes work by Theodor Adrono on literature of commitment, and a section on 'Literature and History' that contains essays on bearing witness to atrocities through literary writing, and on the problems of using language that has been contaminated by its association with a particular history.)

I am right; you are dead

Richard Clarke (2004), Against All Enemies, Simon and Schuster UK
Eldred Durosimi Jones (3rd ed., 1988), The Writing of Wole Soyinka, James Currey
Jack Mapanje (1993), The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison, Heinemann
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (1981), Detained, Heinemann
Wole Soyinka (1972), A Shuttle in the Crypt, (including Prisonettes), Rex Collings/Methuen

Some other works by Soyinka:

Plays:

A Dance in the Forests (1960)
The Trials of Brother Jero (1964)
The Road (1969)
Madmen and Specialists (1971)
The Bacchae (1973)
Death and the King's Horseman (1976)
Opera Wonyosi (1977)
A Play of Giants (1984)
The Beatification of Area Boy (1995)
Document of Identity (1999)
King Baabu (2001)

Novels:

The Interpreters (1965)
Season of Anomy (1973)

Poetry:

Ogun Abibiman (1976)
Mandela's Earth and Other Poems

Other works:

Aké (1981 - biography)
Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years (A Memoir: 1946-1965) (1994 - biography)
Memoirs of a Nigerian Childhood (1994 - biography)
The Man Died: Prison Notes (1972)
The Open Sore of a Continent (1996)
The Burden of Memory (1999)

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