An Introduction to East African Poetry
Author | : J. Kariara |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1977-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780195723793 |
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Author | : J. Kariara |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1977-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780195723793 |
Author | : Jonathan Kariara |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : African poetry (English) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Austin Lwanga Bukenya |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : African poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Cook |
Publisher | : East African Publishers |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9789966460196 |
The spirit of the poetic flowering of the 1960s is encapsulated in this comprehensive anthology. The collection gives voice to some fifty poets from Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, writing in English. The diversity of the interests and styles of the individual poets is illustrated: a blend of the gentle lyricism that is a feature of East African writing. All the major poets are included, and many not so well known. Amongst the best known are Jared Angira, Jonathan Kariara, Joseph Kariuki, Taban Lo Liyong, Okot p'Bitek, and David Rubadiri - one of the editors.
Author | : A. D. Amateshe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
An Anthology of East Africa Poetryis a collection of recent poems from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zimbabwe. It has been prepared for secondary school pupils and first year undergraduates.
Author | : Jonathan Kariara |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Simon Gikandi |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0231125208 |
The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 challenges the conventional belief that the English-language literary traditions of East Africa are restricted to the former British colonies of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Instead, these traditions stretch far into such neighboring countries as Somalia and Ethiopia. Simon Gikandi and Evan Mwangi assemble a truly inclusive list of major writers and trends. They begin with a chronology of key historical events and an overview of the emergence and transformation of literary culture in the region. Then they provide an alphabetical list of major writers and brief descriptions of their concerns and achievements. Some of the writers discussed include the Kenyan novelists Grace Ogot and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ugandan poet and essayist Taban Lo Liyong, Ethiopian playwright and poet Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, Tanzanian novelist and diplomat Peter Palangyo, Ethiopian novelist Berhane Mariam Sahle-Sellassie, and the novelist M. G. Vassanji, who portrays the Indian diaspora in Africa, Europe, and North America. Separate entries within this list describe thematic concerns, such as colonialism, decolonization, the black aesthetic, and the language question; the growth of genres like autobiography and popular literature; important movements like cultural nationalism and feminism; and the impact of major forces such as AIDS/HIV, Christian missions, and urbanization. Comprehensive and richly detailed, this guide offers a fresh perspective on the role of East Africa in the development of African and world literature in English and a new understanding of the historical, cultural, and geopolitical boundaries of the region.
Author | : Peter Leman |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2020-04-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1789625203 |
Singing the Law is about the legal lives and afterlives of oral cultures in East Africa, particularly as they appear within the pages of written literatures during the colonial and postcolonial periods. In examining these cultures, this book begins with an analysis of the cultural narratives of time and modernity that formed the foundations of British colonial law. Recognizing the contradictory nature of these narratives (i.e., both promoting and retreating from the Euro-centric ideal of temporal progress) enables us to make sense of the many representations of and experiments with non-linear, open-ended, and otherwise experimental temporalities that we find in works of East African literature that take colonial law as a subject or point of critique. Many of these works, furthermore, consciously appropriate orature as an expressive form with legal authority. This affords them the capacity to challenge the narrative foundations of colonial law and its postcolonial residues and offer alternative models of temporality and modernity that give rise, in turn, to alternative forms of legality. East Africa’s “oral jurisprudence” ultimately has implications not only for our understanding of law and literature in colonial and postcolonial contexts, but more broadly for our understanding of how the global south has shaped modern law as we know and experience it today.
Author | : Barack Wandera |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789914985733 |
Author | : Angela Smith |
Publisher | : Three Continents |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
A survey of East African writing in English covering novels, poetry and drama.