Literary Celebrity and Political Activism: Wole Soyinka's Nobel Prize Lecture and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle.
In 1986, the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. This article considers the role of the Nobel Prize in the construction, promotion and cementing of literary celebrity, addressing the ways in which the prize augments Soyinka's literary and political renown, alread...
| Published in: | Critical Arts: A South-North Journal of Cultural & Media Studies Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 73 - 87 |
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