7 - Igilango Geesi in the Public Sphere: Soyinka’s Intervention in Nigerian Political Discourse
Corresponding Author(s) : Dipo Irele
Afrique et développement,
Vol. 40 No 4 (2015): Afrique et développement
Résumé
L’écrivain nigérian, Wole Soyinka, est bien connu comme critique social et intellectuel public. Dans ses écrits qui couvrent tous les genres, il a dénoncé toutes les formes d’abus de pouvoir en Afrique en général, et dans son pays, le Nigeria, en particulier. Dans son œuvre, intitulée Interventions, Soyinka revient de nouveau sur la critique de l’abus de pouvoir en Afrique et au Nigeria. Ce recueil de textes a été inspiré par l’annulation des élections au Nigeria du 12 juin 1993. Abiola. Il traite de beaucoup de thèmes, mais tous les textes mettent surtout en exergue les points de vue critiques de Soyinka sur l’abus de pouvoir dans toutes ses ramifications. Le présent article jette un regard critique sur la position de Soyinka. Il convient de rappeler que cet auteur ne s’attaque pas objectivement à la situation politique nigériane. Ses écrits sont caractérisés par ce que nous pouvons appeler un glissement et aussi un surplus de sens en raison de son Igilango Geesi. En outre, Soyinka ne s’attaque pas aux configurations idéologiques et au pouvoir dans le paysage politique nigérian. Nonobstant ces manquements, les écrits de Soyinka ont ajouté une nouvelle dimension à la sphère publique du discours politique nigérian.
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Derrida, O.J., 1976, Of Grammatology. Translated by G. Spivak, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Irele, Abiola, 1981, African Experience in Literature and Ideology, London: Heinemann.
Jacoby, R., 1987, The Last Intellectuals, New York: Basic Press.
Jeyifo, Biodun, 2004a, ‘Oguntoyinbo: Wole Soyinka and Igilango Geesi’, unpublished paper.
Jeyifo, Biodun, 2004b, Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics and Postcolonialism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kanterian, E., 2007, Wittgenstein, London: Reaktion Books.
Kaviraj, Sudipta, 1997, ‘On the Structure of Nationalist Discourse’, in T.V. Sathyamurthy, ed., State and Nation in the Context of Social Change, Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Laclau, E., 1993, ‘Discourse’, in R.E. Goodin and P. Pettit, eds, A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell.
Laclau, E. and C. Mouffe, 2001, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics, 2nd edition, London: Verso.
Rorty, R., 1989, Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Said, Edward, 1980, Literature and Society, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Said, Edward, 1994, Representations of the Intellectual, London: Vintage.
Saussure, F. de, 1959, Course in General Linguistics. Translated by C. Bailey and A. Sechehaye, New York: McGraw–Hill.
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Soyinka W., 1971a, Madmen and Specialists, London: Methuen.
Soyinka, W., 1971b, A Shuttle in the Crypt, London: Collins/Methuen.
Soyinka, W., 1972, The Man Died, London: Rex Collins.
Soyinka W., 1973, Season of Anomy, London: Collins.
Soyinka, W., 1984, A Play of Giants, London: Methuen.
Soyinka, W., 1995, The Open Sore of a Continent, New York: Oxford University Press.
Soyinka, W., 1996, ‘The National Question in Africa’, in Cynthia Havitt de Alcantara, ed., Social Futures/Global Visions, Oxford: Blackwell and UNRISD.
Soyinka, W., 2005a, Interventions I, Ibadan: Bookcraft Ltd.
Soyinka, W., 2005b, Interventions II, We The People, Ibadan: Bookcraft Ltd.
Soyinka, W., 2005c, Interventions III, Cults: A People in Denial, Ibadan: Bookcraft Ltd. Soyinka, W., 2005d, Interventions IV: In a Lighter Vein, Ibadan: Bookcraft Ltd.
Soyinka, W., 2005e, Interventions V: Of Power, Ibadan: Bookcraft Ltd.
Taylor, Charles, 2000, ‘Modernity and Difference’, in P. Gilroy, L. Grossberg and A. McRobbie, eds, Without Guarantees, London: Verso.
Volosinov, Valentin, 1973, Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, New York: Saminen Press.