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ALT 6 Poetry in Africa: African Literature Today – A review: African Literature Today

Autor Eldred Jones
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 ian 1973
First published in 1973, this volume of the series includes a tribute from the Editor to the poet Christopher Okigbo who died fighting in the Biafran War in 1967, and two articles on his poetry. Also discussed are Leopold Senghor, Dennis Brutus, Wole Soyinka, Lenrie Peters and Ferdinand Oyono. The contributions analyse East African poetry, French Algerian poetry, Zulu poetry, and "Rara" chants in Yoruba oral poetry. Donatus I. Nwoga writes a general article on modern African poetry. The new books reviewed include Mazisi Kunene's Zulu Poems and Okot p'Bitek's Two Songs: "Song of Prisoner" and "Song of Malaya" and Taban lo Liyong's Another Nigger Dead.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847011190
ISBN-10: 1847011195
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 138 x 215 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: James Currey
Seria African Literature Today


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Eldred Durosimi Jones

Cuprins

Editorial - Eldred Jones Okigbo's portrait of the artist as a sunbird: A reading of Heavensgate (1962) [D.S.Izevbaye] Defence of culture in the poetry of Christopher Okigbo [Romanus Egudu] Obscurity & commitment in modern African poetry [Donatus I. Nwoga] East African poetry [Timothy Wangusa] Senghor re-evaluated [Julia Di Stefano Pappageorge] Algerian poetry of French expression [Mildred P. Mortimer] 'Rara' chants in Yoruba spoken art [Adeboye Babalola] The universe is my book: Lenrie Peters [Edwin Thumboo] Literature & resistance in South Africa: Two Zulu poets [Maria K. Mootry] Can the prisoner make a poet? A critical discussion of Letters to Martha & other Poems from a South African Prison by Dennis Brutus [Bahadur Tejani] Naked into harvest-tide: The harvest image in Soyinka's Idanre [Eldred D. Jones] Comments Reviews include Mazisi Kunene's Zulu Poems and Okot p'Bitek's Two Songs: 'Song of Prisoner' and 'Song of Malaya' and Taban lo Liyong's Another Nigger Dead