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Marxism and West African Literature
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Abstract
A fierce disagreement broke out in the late 1970s between Wole Soyinka and the ‘Ibadan-Ife Group’ of Nigerian intellectuals and writers, who criticized Soyinka for failing to demonstrate sufficient class awareness in his work (Jeyifo, 2004: xiii–xiv). The Ibadan-Ife Group, composed largely of young, ‘second-generation’ writers seeking ways to transform the political disaster-zone of post-Civil War Nigeria, called for a class analysis of African cultural production and criticized earlier authors for failing to secure genuine post-colonial freedom (Jeyifo, 2004).
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Abstract
A fierce disagreement broke out in the late 1970s between Wole Soyinka and the ‘Ibadan-Ife Group’ of Nigerian intellectuals and writers, who criticized Soyinka for failing to demonstrate sufficient class awareness in his work (Jeyifo, 2004: xiii–xiv).
The Ibadan-Ife Group, composed largely of young, ‘second-generation’ writers seeking ways to transform the political disaster-zone of post-Civil War Nigeria, called for a class analysis of African cultural production and criticized earlier authors for failing to secure genuine post-colonial freedom (Jeyifo, 2004).
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