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Volume 18:1 January 2018
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Cultural Aspects in Wole Soyinka’s Lion And The Jewel

G. Sathya, M.A., M.Phil.


Abstract

Wole Soyinka is a prolific Nigerian dramatist, poet, novelist, autobiographer, scriptwriter and critic. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, he is in the forefront of African writers today, along with Chinua Achebe and Ngugi Wa Thiang’o. His works reveal the major conflict in the post-colonial concepts like domination, suppression, and search for identity.

This paper is an attempt to bring out how his play ‘The Lion and the Jewel’ characterized by culture conflict, rude comedy and love, where the old culture represented by the uneducated people in Ilunjunle, led by Baroka, Sidi and the rest, conflict with the new culture led by Lakunle, who is educated, school teacher by profession is influenced by the western ways. The central idea of this study is to show of how Soyinka through his themes, plot and characters finds out the conflict between the cultures, further the study concludes by proving to the world thoughts and condition of culture.

Keywords: Wole Soyinka, The Lion and the Jewel, domination, suppression, culture, identity

Culture and Tradition

Soyinka deals with the Yoruba culture in this play. Yoruba people have certain rules and regulation in their life style regarding their religion, laws, marriage, community etc. Yoruba is one of the most popular Nigerian cultures. The concept of bride price is one of the cultures of Yoruba, which was often expressed by the female protagonist Sidi. It is strictly followed by the people of Illunjile especially by the females their virginity before marriage.

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G. Sathya, M.A., M.Phil. Assistant Professor of English Adhiyaman Arts and Science College for Women Uthangarai 635207 Tamilnadu India gsathyaeng@gmail.com

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