Death and the King's Horseman: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 1

by Wole Soyinka

Overview

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900393977614
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	11/05/2002
Series:	Norton Critical Editions Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Wole Soyinka, one of Africa's foremost writers, won the Nobel Prize in 1986 and is the author of Death and the King's Horseman, among other works.

Simon Gikandi is the Robert Schirmer Professor of English and Chair at the University of Princeton. His books include Reading the African Novel, Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature, and Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism. He is editor of the Ngugi wa Thiong’o volume in the Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature series. He is presently editing The Encyclopedia of African Literature (Routledge).

Editorial Reviews

Soyinka both entertains and asks subtle questions about mass psychology, individual psychology, and universal human struggles of the will.

Chicago Tribune