Myth, Literature and the African World
First published 1978
About the book
“I shall begin by commemorating the gods for their self-sacrifice on the alter of literature, and in so doingpress them into further service on behalf of human society, and its quest for the explication of being.”
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Catalogue record
Cambridge University Press · 184 pages
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Pages
- 184
- ISBN
- 978-0-521-29394-5
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Pages
- 184
- ISBN
-
- 978-0-521-29394-5
- Author
- Soyinka, Wole
- Statement
- Myth, Literature and the African World / Wole Soyinka.
- Records
- Open Library
- African Continental Ancestry Group
- Literature and society
- African literature
- History and criticism
- Drama
- Esthetics
- Cultural Characteristics
- Mythology
- Civilization
- African literature, history and criticism