Mandela the Spear and Other Poems
Title | Mandela the Spear and Other Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Atukwei Okai |
Publisher | African Perspectives Publishing |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2013-06-24 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0992187532 |
The strength of Mandela the Spear and other Poems lies in Okais burning desire to celebrate the black experience and culture, through the iconic figures who symbolize those struggles and triumphs. Thus, not surprisingly, one encounters names like Mandela, Nadine Gordimer, Amilcar Cabral, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, to name a few. Okai has long established himself as one of the towering figures in the field of modern African poetry in English. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of a vigorous reinvention of the poetic genre that revolutionized the poet/audience relationship, changed the mode of expression from scriptography to narratology, and the role of the audience from that of passive reception to active participation.
Mandela the Spear and Other Poems
Title | Mandela the Spear and Other Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Atukwei Okai |
Publisher | African Books Collective |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0992187516 |
The strength of Mandela the Spear and other Poems lies in Okai's burning desire to celebrate the black experience and culture, through the iconic figures who symbolize those struggles and triumphs. Thus, not surprisingly, one encounters names like Mandela, Nadine Gordimer, Amilcar Cabral, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, to name a few. Okai has long established himself as one of the towering figures in the field of modern African poetry in English. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of a vigorous reinvention of the poetic genre that revolutionized the poet/audience relationship, changed the mode of expression from scriptography to narratology, and the role of the audience from that of passive reception to active participation.
Mandela's Earth and Other Poems
Title | Mandela's Earth and Other Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Wole Soyinka |
Publisher | New York : Random House |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
Mandela's Earth and Other Poems
Title | Mandela's Earth and Other Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Wole Soyinka |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Nigerian poetry (English) |
ISBN |
Mandela and Other Poems
Title | Mandela and Other Poems PDF eBook |
Author | John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Nigerian poetry (English) |
ISBN |
Mandela the Spear
Title | Mandela the Spear PDF eBook |
Author | Atukwei Okai |
Publisher | |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN | 9789964104573 |
Fertile Crossings
Title | Fertile Crossings PDF eBook |
Author | Pietro Deandrea |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9789042014688 |
In retracing some of the routes followed by West African literature in English over the course of the last three decades, this book employs an original multidimensional approach whereby the three main genres - narrative, poetry and drama - are considered in the light of their intricate web of fecund rapport and mutual influence.Authors such as Tutuola, Armah, Aidoo and Awoonor translated the fluid structures of orality into written prose, and consequently infused their works with poetic and dramatic resonance, thereby challenging the canonical dominance of social realism and paving the way for the birth of West African magical realism in Laing, Okri and Cheney-Coker.Starting in the 1970s, poetry on stage has become a mainstream genre in Ghana, thanks to performances by Okai, Anyidoho and Acquah.Boundaries between literary theatre and other genres have undergone a similar dissolution in the affirmation of the concept of 'total art' from Efua Sutherland to ben Abdallah, Osofisan and others. Fertile Crossingsoffers a study of these topics from various viewpoints, blending in-depth textual analysis with reflections on the political import of the works in question within the context of the present state of African societies, all supported by interviews with most of the authors.