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3 de nov. de 2021 · Season of anomy : a novel by Soyinka, Wole. Publication date 1974 Topics Nigeria -- Fiction, Nigeria Publisher New York : Third Press, Joseph Okpaku Pub. Co. ;
Risking his life, he travels north to Cross-River, into the center of the conflict, where he finally discovers her in a prison full of workgangs, lunatics, and lepers. With the help of Ahime and ...
allegory and myth as we find it in Season of Anomy. The quest theme in the later work runs on at least two levels; one is social and the other is personal. The two dimensions are interrelated for each reinforces the other. Ofeyi, the social reformer, is also the archetype of all eternal voyagers and all lone seekers.
Soyinka is perhaps right to have taken the approach that he has, but the fact remains that "The Season of Anomy" is difficult to understand for a North American or European unfamiliar with Nigerian at the time of its terrible civil war. Compared to his great masterpiece "Death and the King's Horseman", the "Season of Anomy" is a wretched failure.
The narrative design of Season of Anomy exemplifies a characteristic disjoint: the creative universe of a postcolonial text implicitly suggests a hope of possibilities for the black world, while the explicit narrative formulates the difficulties of accomplishing these possibilities. In contrast with the events displaying the frustrations of the ...
15 de jun. de 1988 · Season of Anomy is the story of an individual selling a utopian world out in order to spread its ideas. This dispersal results in a country fracturing into chaotic revolutionary violence. Many die pointlessly, and many more suffer simply out of being at the wrong place at the wrong time.
- Wole Soyinka
Season of Anomy mirrors a Nigeria in Turmoil in the sixties. It captures the ethnic violence of those years that took place in the Northern part of Nigeria. It is a description or representation ...
