A DECONSTRUCTIVE READING OF WOLE SOYINKA’S DEATH AND THE KING’S HORSEMAN AND THE ROAD

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dc.contributor.authorGARGATI, MUSA UMARU
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-13T09:42:11Z
dc.date.available2015-10-13T09:42:11Z
dc.date.issued2015-01
dc.descriptionA THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POST-GRADUATE SCHOOL, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES, FACULTY OF ARTS, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA. IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF DEGREE MASTERS OF ARTS DEGREE IN LITERATURE.en_US
dc.description.abstractAfrican literary elites have responded to the call by Africans to free the continent from all forms of colonial and slave mentality. While others have responded overtly, Soyinka does so covertly. As a result, over time, critical commentaries on his works have been on the mythical presentation of the Yoruba world as a microcosm of the entire African continent and the post-colonial experience. While these commentaries cannot be totally erased, this research exposes the pitfalls, the blindspots and the aporias that characterize most African writings. Consequently, this research discusses Soyinka’s two plays; Death and the King’s Horseman and The Road as Soyinka’s unconscious hatred for the West. Clearly, African writers in an attempt to counter Western perception of Africa as being uncultured unwittingly enter the same conceptual web. To foreground such instances this research deploys deconstructive method of reading to bring to the fore some of the biased presentation of the Western world in all its fauna and flora. Although, deconstructive approach is “esoteric”, it is distinct in pointing out binary oppositions and how such binaries work to undo any artistic creation. Consequently, this research is premised on the following assumptions; that there is a biased portraiture of the Western world; that Africa’s position as the Other in Western metaphysics has been reversed to take the privileged position while the West becomes a negation. What Derrida calls supplementation. This research stresses the creative freedom of the reader as well as the attempt to participate in and observe the play of possible meanings to which the texts give access.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6966
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectA DECONSTRUCTIVE,en_US
dc.subjectREADING,en_US
dc.subjectWOLE SOYINKA’S,en_US
dc.subjectDEATH,en_US
dc.subjectKING’S,en_US
dc.subjectHORSEMAN,en_US
dc.subjectROAD.en_US
dc.titleA DECONSTRUCTIVE READING OF WOLE SOYINKA’S DEATH AND THE KING’S HORSEMAN AND THE ROADen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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