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Work #340 · Mid

Aké: The Years of Childhood

Wole Soyinka
1981 · English
Memoir · Modern African autobiography

Growing up in the Yoruba town of Aké in late-colonial Nigeria

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Attribute Aké: The Years of Childhood (Mid)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Singular
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Tradition
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Aké: The Years of Childhood

Late-colonial Nigerian time.

Space

Aké: The Years of Childhood

Aké town.

Matter

Aké: The Years of Childhood

Embodied childhood.

Observer

Aké: The Years of Childhood

Adult Soyinka recovering his childhood self.

Energy

Aké: The Years of Childhood

Yoruba cultural life and colonial conditions.

Information

Aké: The Years of Childhood

Childhood-memory in autobiography.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Aké: The Years of Childhood

Yoruba traditional and Christian-missionary frameworks in tension.