![]() ![]() These tragedies have been put to very different uses throughout their rich reception history: in the colonial context they functioned as part of a European narrative of cultural hegemony, while postcolonial authors have used them as weapons of resistance to destabilize those very same narratives and to form new identities beyond the shadow of colonialism. ![]() The tragic texts of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been, and remain, central to the literary canon of Graeco-Roman antiquity. ![]() It will argue that Soyinka’s Bacchae sits at the intersection of Western and African intellectual traditions the text brings Soyinka’s Nigerian and black African identity into a dialogue with the European intellectual tradition of engagement with ancient Greek tragedy. This thesis focuses on The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite, a reception of the ancient Greek tragedy Euripides’ Bacchae by the Nobel Prize winning Nigerian playwright, poet and social critic Wole Soyinka. Soyinka's Bacchae: reading tragedy in postcolonial modernity.ĭoctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).įull text not available from this repository. ![]()
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