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Indigeneity, Globalization, and African LiteratureAfter the Nobel Prize: Wole Soyinka’s Poetic Output

Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: After the Nobel Prize: Wole Soyinka’s Poetic... [It has become a truism many literary scholars believe that nobody writes better after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. While this could be true of most writers who won the prize at the zenith of their writing careers or had peaked in their writings, there are exceptions whose writings, at least in one of the genres they practice, surpass in creative strength their pre-Nobel achievements in that particular genre. Doubtless, some writers win the Nobel Prize toward the end of their lives or careers and might have gone into creative menopause. However, in recent times, Derek Walcott’s White Egrets has won the T. S. Eliot Prize, Britain’s most prestigious award for poetry, long after he won the Nobel Prize. Walcott’s collection of poems on ageing and dying is described as “a moving, risk-taking and technically flawless book by a great poet” (TheIndependent on Sunday, January 25, 2011).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Indigeneity, Globalization, and African LiteratureAfter the Nobel Prize: Wole Soyinka’s Poetic Output

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Tanure Ojaide 2015
ISBN
978-1-137-54220-5
Pages
89 –100
DOI
10.1057/9781137560032_6
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Abstract

[It has become a truism many literary scholars believe that nobody writes better after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. While this could be true of most writers who won the prize at the zenith of their writing careers or had peaked in their writings, there are exceptions whose writings, at least in one of the genres they practice, surpass in creative strength their pre-Nobel achievements in that particular genre. Doubtless, some writers win the Nobel Prize toward the end of their lives or careers and might have gone into creative menopause. However, in recent times, Derek Walcott’s White Egrets has won the T. S. Eliot Prize, Britain’s most prestigious award for poetry, long after he won the Nobel Prize. Walcott’s collection of poems on ageing and dying is described as “a moving, risk-taking and technically flawless book by a great poet” (TheIndependent on Sunday, January 25, 2011).]

Published: Dec 16, 2015

Keywords: Nobel Prize; African National Congress; AFRICAN Literature; Poetic Work; Prestigious Award

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