2020
DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2019.1691246
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Literary Celebrity and Political Activism: Wole Soyinka’s Nobel Prize Lecture and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle

Abstract: In 1986 the Nigerian writer, Wole Soyinka, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. This paper 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, already substantial at the time of the award. It takes as focus Soyinka's Nobel lecture and his decision to leverage the global platform afforded him to highlight the struggle against apartheid. The lecture is structured a… Show more

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