Wole Soyinka: Genre, Style, and Mode

Autobiography

• Aké: The Years of Childhood, 1981
  • Aké and Traditions of Nineteenth-Century Autobiography (from the Victorian Web)
  • Autobiography, Autobiographicality, and Self-Representation
  • Beginnings, Myths of Childhood, and Autobiography
  • Childhood as a Personal Myth in Autobiography
  • The Problematic Relationship of Autobiographer to Audience
  • Victorian Autobiography as Victorian
  • Fictional Autobiography in E. B. Browning and Charles Dickens
• Isara: A Voyage around Essay, 1989
• The Man Died, 1972 (notes from prison)

Fiction

• The Interpreters, 1965
  • Breaking down the language structure in The Interpreters
  • The Challenge of Mathias's Language
  • Mixing narrative, theatrical, and dramatic styles
• Season of Anomy, 1979

Nonfiction and Literary Criticism

• "The Writer in a Modern African State," 1967
• "The Critic and Society: Barthes, Leftopcracy, and Other Mythologies," 1981
• "Cross Currents: The 'New African' after Cultural Encounters," 1982
• "Shakespeare and the Living Dramatist," 1983
• "Climates of Art," 1985
• "The External Encounter: Ambivalence in African Arts and Literature," 1986

Poetry

• Idanre and Other Poems, 1967
• Poems from Prison., 1969.
• A Shuttle in the Crypt, 1972. Discussions of individual poems
• Ogun Abibiman., 1976.
• Mandela's Earth and Other Poems

Drama

• The Swamp Dwellers, 1958
• The Lion and the Jewel, 1959
• The Trials of Brother Jero, 1960
• Before the Blackout, 1965
• Kongi's Harvest, 1965
• The Detainee, 1965 (BBC Radio Play)
• The Road, 1969
• Madmen and Specialists, 1970
• Collected Plays (I), 1973
• Collected Plays (II), 1974
• Death and the King's Horseman,, 1976