McNulty, Eugene (2011) Before the Law(s): Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and the Passages of “Bare Life”. Postcolonial Text, 6 (3). ISSN 1705-9100
Abstract
Writing in 1983 about state violence in contemporary Nigeria, Wole
Soyinka relates the story of a medical doctor, Seinde Arigbede, who
had been kidnapped by a special wing of the state police and subjected
to the terror of imprisonment and torture. “The circumstances,”
Soyinka suggests, “would have amazed even Franz Kafka”
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| Item Type: | Article (Published) |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Colonialism, post-colonialism |
| Subjects: | Humanities > Culture Humanities > English literature |
| DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of English |
| Publisher: | Postcolonial Text |
| Official URL: | https://www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article... |
| Copyright Information: | Author |
| ID Code: | 31010 |
| Deposited On: | 22 Apr 2025 08:37 by Gordon Kennedy . Last Modified 22 Apr 2025 08:37 |
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