The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness
Nobel Laureate in Literature Wole Soyinka considers all of Africa--indeed, all the world--as he poses this question: once repression stops, is reconciliation between oppressor and victim possible? In the face of centuries-long devastation wrought on the African continent and her Diaspora by slavery, colonialism, Apartheid, and the manifold faces of racism, what form of recompense could possibly suffice? In a voice as eloquent and humane as it is forceful, Soyinka boldly challenges in these pages the notions of simple forgiveness, confession, and absolution as strategies for social healing. Ultimately, he turns to art--poetry, music, painting,…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-972887-9
- EAN: 9780199728879
- Produktnummer: 29341015
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 6'087 KB
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Wole Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He is Woodruff Professor of the Arts at Emory University, in Atlanta, a Fellow of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard, and was recently named the first Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence by New York University's Africana Studies Program and the Institute of African-American Affairs.
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