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By Wole Soyinka
"The burden of memory, the muse of forgiveness" was published by Oxford University Press in 1999 - New York, it has 208 pages and the language of the book is English.
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- Title: ➤ The burden of memory, the muse of forgiveness
- Author: Wole Soyinka
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 208
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish Date: 1999
- Publish Location: New York
“The burden of memory, the muse of forgiveness” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Politics and government - History and criticism - Reconciliation - Blacks in literature - Politics and literature - African literature - Amnesty - History - Literature - Black literature - Black authors - Versöhnung - Amnestie - Literatur - Verzoening - Politik - Geschichte 1960-1998 - Letterkunde - Schwarze - Negers - Senghor, leopold sedar, 1906-2001 - Africa, politics and government - Nigeria, politics and government - African literature, history and criticism - Literature, black authors - New York Times reviewed - Black people in literature
- People: ➤ Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-) - Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-2001)
- Places: Africa - Nigeria
- Time: 20th century - 1984-1993 - 1960-
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: xii, 208 p. ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL701580M - OL15125302W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 38566395
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 97050052
- ISBN-10: 0195122054
- All ISBNs: 0195122054
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The Burden of Memory considers all of Africa - indeed, all the world - as it poses the logical question: Once repression stops, is reconciliation between oppressor and victim possible? In the face of centuries-long devastations wrought on the African continent and her Diaspora by slavery, colonialism, Apartheid, and the manifold faces of racism, what form of recompense could possibly be adequate? In a voice as eloquent and humane as it is forceful, Soyinka examines this fundamental question as he illuminates the principle duty and "near intolerable burden" of memory to bear the record of injustice. In so doing he challenges notions of simple forgiveness, of confession and absolution, as strategies for social healing. Ultimately, he turns to artpoetry, music, painting - as one source that may nourish the seed of reconciliation, art as the generous vessel that can hold together the burden of memory and the hope of forgiveness. Based on Soyinka's Stewart-McMillan lectures delivered at the Du Bois Institute at Harvard. The Burden of Memory speaks not only to those concerned specifically with African politics, but also to anyone seeking the path to social justice through some of history's most inhospitable terrain.
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