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The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness

Soyinka, Wole
Publisher:  Oxford University Press USA
Year Published:  1999  
Pages:  224pp   Price:  Paper $20.95   ISBN:  019134281
Resource Type:  Book

Abstract:  The author, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, asks the question: Is reconciliation between the oppressor and oppressed possible? To answer this the notions of simple forgiveness and confession are challenged as strategies for social healing.

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