Wole Soyinka’s Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known: A Postcolonial Reading.
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2014
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The Department of Communication Studies, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
Abstract
Critics who have engaged in the explanations that account for the evolution of hybridity in African literature tend to examine the corpus within the context of colonial engagements and its residue. This has since produced, within the context of postcolonial criticism, plethora of theories which seem to shift attention from the aesthetic configurations and impact of social values of postcolonial literatures. Since hybridity fuses 'inside' and 'outside' forms and contents into a confluence that predicates currency of engagement, this paper with particular attention to Samarkand and Other markets I have Known, uses the latest poetry of Wole Soyinka to exemplify manifestations and values of hybridized forms. The writer interrogates popular theses on the evolution of mutation and this prepares the ground for a conclusion that identifies with the origin of transposed forms and the boundless boundaries of postcolonial discourse.
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Post colonial, Wole Soyinka, Samarkand
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Afolayan, K.N. (2014): Wole Soyinka’s Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known: A Postcolonial Reading. ELTT: A Journal for Teachers of English and Communication Skills. 10 (2); 315- 323, Published by The Department of Communication Studies, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta.