Wole Soyinka: Beatification of Area Boy

Cover: 9780413686800 | Beatification of Area Boy | Wole Soyinka | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

Set in Nigeria, amid the scenes of everyday racketeering and general disquiet, the police try to clear the area of undersirables, as a traditional wedding between two illustrious and ambitious families is about to take place.

'Witty, wise and uplifting, this is a beautiful play whose message steals up on you and lingers on.' Financial Times.

'The play is a protest against the barbarity of greed and oppression; but it is also a celebration of people's irrepressible and indomitable spirit' Sunday Times.

Über den Autor

Wole Soyinka is a playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist born in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1934.

Soyinka won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature with his debut novel, The Interpreters, becoming the first-ever African laureate and has since won many other prizes such as the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award in 2009 and the Anisfield-Wolf book Award, Lifetime Achievement in 2012.

A prominent political activist, Soyinka was imprisoned for nearly two years during the Nigerian Civil War and was later exiled. He continues to fight against government corruption and oppression worldwide.

Zusammenfassung

'A beautifully crafted piece of theatre that takes what it needs from Western dramatic conventions and then does what it wants to do - which is to commemorate and commiserate with the daily life of Nigerians. On the surface it's a straight slice of life, eavesdropped and reported - one day in the vibrant and violent, cruel and colourful life of a street corner in post-oil-boom Lagos . . . He does it with consummate skill, drawing threads of social observation, political passion, emotional tension and tough intellectual debate into the complex rhythms of a jazz symphony . . . Both accessible and poetic, very warm and funny and deeply moving in its tragic, complicated argument . . . a masterpiece.' Guardian

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780413686800
ISBN-10:	0413686809
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Soyinka, Wole
Hersteller:	Methuen Drama
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	203 x 127 x 7 mm
Von/Mit:	Wole Soyinka
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.05.2007
Gewicht:	0,134 kg