期刊名称：Journal of Post-Colonial Cultures & Societies
印刷版ISSN：1948-1845
电子版ISSN：1948-1853
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：3-4
出版社：Wright State University
摘要：Wole Soyinka.s A Shuttle in the Crypt is a distillation of deep-seated anger against what Soyinka perceived as ..unjustified confinement.. of twenty five months , by the General Yakubu Gowon.s administration during the Nigerian civil war between 1967 and 1970. Nigeria.s haunting political history is approached from ostensibly mediation of fact and fiction rendered in poetry. Poems in this collection exteriorize Soyinka.s mind as it shuttles back and forth from life to death, fuelled by the fear of palpable death, and the knowledge that his fellow prisoners were dying slowly, unheeded by the prison authority. A Shuttle in the Crypt dwells on portrayal of the notions, conceptions and symbolic attitudes of political players in the post-independent Nigeria as underscored by the impact of their actions on the nation.s turbulent social and historical circumstances ,which are significantly mediated by Soyinka.s literary imagination. This paper evaluates the intersection of history, literature and society, to examine the facade of nationhood as orchestrated by the political upheaval and internecine conflict, essentially moderated by the pulsation of Soyinka.s mind while in solitary confinement. The paper further examines the poetics of A Shuttle in the Crypt, as it articulates suspended fear of expression and the need to give expression to an ever greater pressure of grim experience in Nigeria.s chequered political trajectory.
关键词：Writing violence; in the shadow of death; nationhood; history; literature; society; ;Wole Soyinka. ; var currentpos;timer; function initialize() { timer=setInterval("scrollwindow()";10);} function sc(){clearInterval(timer); }function scrollwindow() { currentpos=document.body.scrollTop; window.scroll(0;++currentpos); if (currentpos != document.body.scrollTop) sc();} document.onmousedown=scdocument.ondblclick=initialize;Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies ;ISSN No. ;1948;-;1853 ;';Deconstructing Violence In The Shadow Of Death: Problematizing Nationhood in Wole;Soyinka's A Shuttle In the Crypt;'; Niyi Ak;ingbe.;JPCS Vol. 3; Nos. 3 & 4; 2012. ;www.jpcs.in;38 ;Deconstructing Violence In The Shadow Of Death: Problematizing Nationhood in Wole ;Soyinka's A Shuttle In the Crypt ;Niyi Akingbe ;Introduction ;Wole Soyinka.s A Shuttle in the Crypt(1972) chronicles the plight and sojourn of Soyinka in ;detention; in Nigerian prison and his attendant reaction to the perceived physical and mental ;sufferings during this traumatic period. Soyinka; in an attempt; to prevent the Biafran secession ;which could have led to civil war in Nigeria was wrongly misunderstood by the Federal ;authorities of Nigeria; who subsequently hauled him into twenty five months detention in 1967. ;A Shuttle in the Crypt is a retrospective anthology of poems; uncovering the brutality and high ;handedness of the military administration of General Yakubu Gowon in silencing dissent ;opinions about the prosecution of Nigerian civil war of 1967 to 1970. This paper examines the ;inherent falsehood in Nigeria.s journey to nationhood as recorded in the poetry collection of ;Wole Soyinka.s A Shuttle in the Crypt. The artificiality of the Nigerian nation as exemplified in ;Kole Omotoso.s Just Before Dawn(1988);where the narrative of ethnic differences is essentially ;underlined by the destruction of social and political stability in Nigeria by the 1966 political ;crisis.
