UID:
almafu_9961889229802883
Umfang:
1 online resource (243 pages)
Ausgabe:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781805434757
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1805434756
Serie:
African Literature Today Series ; Volume 42
Inhalt:
Examines the state of African poetry today, the continuing influence of Africa's pioneer poets, today's new generation of poets, and their work in written poetry and in the spoken word, continuing oral indigenous traditions.
Anmerkung:
Front Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Editorial Article -- Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics -- Articles -- A New Frontier for African Heroic Saga -- Nigeria’s Instapoetry Cultivating Inward, Ideological Activism, Revitalizing African Orality and Re- -- A New Direction in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry -- History and the Call of Water in Romeo Oriogun’s ‘Nomad’ -- Voice, Identity, Tradition in Postcolonial Modernism -- Personal Reflections on Niyi Osundare, Oríkì Praise Tradition, and the Journey Motif in: If Only the -- Lost and Gained in Translation -- Poetry and Performance -- Interviews -- ALT Interview with Professor Kofi Anyidoho - Scholar, Critic, and Award-Winning Poet -- Interview with Kwame Dawes -- (Re)Echoing a Collective Trauma in Nigerian Poetry: An Interview with Kehinde Akano -- Tributes -- Ama Ata Aidoo: Ghana’s Literary Treasure -- I Mourn Ama Ata Aidoo, the Author of ‘A Woman must be Foolish for a Marriage to Work, though a bad -- Literary Supplement -- Three Poems -- A Memorial for KAMAU BRATHWAITE -- For Willie Keorapetse Kgositsile -- A Song for Nyidevu -- From Freedom to Free Doom -- To The Memory Of Aunty Toriomo -- I Swallow Fufu -- Two Poems
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781847013910
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1847013910
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
