The burden of memory, the muse of forgiveness / Wole Soyinka

Soyinka, Wole

ISBN 10: 0195122054 / ISBN 13: 9780195122053

Published by New York : Oxford University Press, 1999

About this Item

Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Publisher's review copy. SIGNED first edition. Nobel prize winner. Physical description; xii, 208 p. ; 22 cm. Subject; Senghor, Léopold Sédar. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The burden of memory, the muse of forgiveness / Wole Soyinka
• Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195122054
• ISBN 13: 9780195122053
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 1 kilogram
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

This text - like "The Open Sore" - derives from the three lectures Soyinka gave at the DuBois Institute (the inaugural lectures of the Genevieve McMillan Foundation). Where "The Open Sore" offered a critique of the Nigerian military and its repression of human and civil rights, "The Burden of Memory" addresses the next logical question in a broader global context: is reconciliation between oppressor and oppressed possible?

About the Author

Wole Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He is Woodruff Professor of the Arts at Emory University, in Atlanta, and a Fellow of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard.