West African Verse
Title | West African Verse PDF eBook |
Author | Donatus Ibe Nwoga |
Publisher | Humanities Press International |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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West African Poetry
Title | West African Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Fraser |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1986-09-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521312233 |
Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on its relationship to various European schools. This book examines West African poetry in English and French against the background of oral poetry in the vernacular. Do the roots of such poetry lie in Africa or in Europe? In committing their work to writing, do poets lose more than they gain? Can the immediacy of oral performance ever be recovered? Robert Fraser's account of two centuries of West African verse examines its subjugation to a succession of international styles: from the heroic couplet to the austerity of experimental Modernism. Successive chapters take us through the Négritude movement and the emergence of anglophone free verse in the 1950s to the rediscovery in recent years of the neglected springs of orality, which is the subject of the concluding chapter.
New Poets of West Africa
Title | New Poets of West Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Tijan M. Sallah |
Publisher | |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
One of Gambia's leading young poets and writers is the editor of this collection of new voices of poetry from West Africa. The countries covered are Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. A brief biographical note is included on each poet, and a selection of their poems. The poets were selected as the most representative of the new and variegated scene of contemporary West African poetic creativity and life.
Four Modern West African Poets
Title | Four Modern West African Poets PDF eBook |
Author | Romanus N. Egudu |
Publisher | New York : NOK Publishers |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Africa, West |
ISBN |
West African Verse
Title | West African Verse PDF eBook |
Author | Donatus Ibe Nwoga |
Publisher | Humanities Press International |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Francophone African Poetry and Drama
Title | Francophone African Poetry and Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Richard J. Gray II |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2014-09-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0786475587 |
Scholars examining literature from former French colonies sometimes view it wrongly as simply an outgrowth of colonial literature. By suggesting new ways to understand the multiple voices present, this book explores how Francophone African poetry and theatre in particular, since the 1960s, constitute both an organic cultural product and a reflection of the diverse African cultures in which they originate. Themes explored in five chapters include the many kinds of African identity formation, the resistance to former notions of literary composition as art, a remapping of social responsibility, and the impact of globalization on Francophone Africa's participation in world economics, politics and culture. This study highlights the inner workings of Francophone African literature and suggests a canonization of modern Francophone works from a world perspective.
Rediscovery
Title | Rediscovery PDF eBook |
Author | Kofi Awoonor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Africa |
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