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Author | : Richard J. Gray II |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2014-09-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0786475587 |
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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.
Author | : Shyam S. Agarwalla |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : African drama (English) |
ISBN | : |
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Represents The Poetry, The Playwrights And All Regions Of African And The Diaspora It Will Prove A Valuable Contribution To The Study Of Literature In General And The Study Of African Poetry And Drama In Particular.
Author | : Gerald Moore |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2007-08-30 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141912901 |
Download The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries, thirty-one of whom appear for the first time. Equally wide-ranging is the content of the poetry itself: war songs and political protests jostle with poems about human love, African nature and the surprises that life offers; all are represented in these rich and colourful pages.
Author | : Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ruth Finnegan |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 2012-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1906924708 |
Download Oral Literature in Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.
Author | : Richard J. Gray II |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2014-09-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476617058 |
Download Francophone African Poetry and Drama Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Wole Soyinka |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1990-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521398343 |
Download Myth, Literature and the African World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa.
Author | : Michael Francis Dei-Anang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780811530163 |
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Author | : David Cook |
Publisher | : East African Publishers |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9789966460196 |
Download Poems from East Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Mahmoudan Hawad |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2022-02 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1496230183 |
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In the face of amnesia, how does one exist? In this poem, Hawad speaks directly to Azawad, a silent figure whose name designates a portion of Tuareg lands divided among five nation-states created in the 1960s. This evanescent being, situated on the edge of the abyss and deprived of speech, space, and the right to exist, has reached such a stage of suffering, misery, and oppression that it acquiesces to the erasure implicit in the labels attached to it. Through an avalanche of words, sounds, and gestures, Hawad attempts to free this creature from the net that ensnares it, to patch together a silhouette that is capable of standing up again, to transform pain into a breeding ground for resistance—a resistance requiring a return to the self, the imagination, and ways of thinking about the world differently. The road will be long. Hawad uses poetry, “cartridges of old words, / a thousand and one misfires, botched, reloaded,” as a weapon of resistance.