Zulu Poems
Author | : Mazisi Kunene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Zulu poetry |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mazisi Kunene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Zulu poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mazisi Kunene |
Publisher | : Africana Pub. |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Stuart |
Publisher | : Oxford : Clarendon P. |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Roland Greene |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 1678 |
Release | : 2012-08-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691154910 |
Rev. ed. of: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors; Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner, associate editors. 1993.
Author | : T. Mac Mandela Zulu |
Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2018-01-02 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1480942162 |
The Profound Poetry of T. Mac Mandela Zulu By: T. Mac Mandela Zulu When author T. Mac Mandela Zulu’s cousin died in prison in 1995, he wrote “Positive or Negative.” His cousin was a career criminal; drugs were his life. Zulu did not want to go down that route. He has always wanted to be somebody and has found his calling in poetry—it is his God-blessed talent.
Author | : Gary Lilley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
"(Lilley's) verse brings beauty to the almost-failed world it creates."--Rain Taxi "Lilley's power comes partly from his sound: syncopated, densely compacted, defiantly resigned."--The Believer Alpha--the beginning; the first letter of the military alphabet; the highest rank in a dominance hierarchy; being the most prominent, talented, or aggressive person in a group. Zulu--tribe; a member of the Negroid people of eastern South Africa; a Social Aid and Pleasure Club in New Orleans; an adjective to describe the language, customs, etc., of the Zulu people. Alpha Zulu is a venture into African American storytelling; it is a blurring of secular and sacred, the tavern and the church, the fall and the ascension of the individual, the beautiful and the terrible, and the humanity found in the twist of the street and the turn of the road. The people in the poems--the narrators and the subjects--tell the stories. The details and images locate each poem at the crossroad of ordinary people with extraordinary, edgy, and universal situations, and their responses are spiritual and streetwise. The lyricism of the line supplies a subtle blues and jazz as the underscore for a very particular community. Narrators and personas give perspectives of place and time, placing the poems fi rmly in the continuum of African culture in America. Gary Copeland Lilley is a native of Sandy Cross, North Carolina, and the beauty of the southern edge of The Great Dismal Swamp is what he calls his ancestral home. He is veteran of the US Navy Submarine Force and a longtime blues denizen of Washington, DC, and Chicago, Illinois. He is also an outsider artist and currently lives in Swannanoa, North Carolina.
Author | : Ruth Finnegan |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2018-05-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 153264504X |
This classic study is an introduction to “oral poetry,” a broad subject which Ruth Finnegan interprets as ranging from American folksongs, Eskimo lyrics, and modern popular songs to medieval oral literature, the heroic poems of Homer, and recent epic compositions in Asia or the Pacific. The book employs a broad comparative perspective and considers oral poetry from Africa, Asia, and Oceania as well as Europe and America. The results of Finnegan’s vast research illuminate and suggest fresh conclusions to many current controversies: the nature of oral tradition and oral composition; the notion of a special oral style; possible connection between types of poetry and types of society; the differences between oral and written communication; and the role of poets in non-literate societies. Drawing on insights from anthropology and literary scholarship, Oral Poetry attempts to create a greater appreciation of the literary aspects of this fascinating form of poetry. Finnegan quotes extensively from a wide variety of sources, mainly in translation. The discussion is presented in non-technical language and will be of interest not only to sociologists and social anthropologists, but also to all those interested in comparative literature and in folk poetry from cultures around the world. The re-issue of this text, widely used in folklore, anthropology, and comparative literature courses, comes at an appropriate juncture in interdisciplinary scholarship, which is witnessing the breakdown of traditional disciplinary boundaries and an increase in the comparative study of oral poetry. For this volume Ruth Finnegan has provided a new foreword relating the text to more recent developments.
Author | : Marietta Chicorel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marietta Chicorel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dike Okoro |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2022-12-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000827801 |
This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence. Kunene is widely recognized for his epic poems that assert cultural identity and condemn the disruption of the growth and development of African culture through colonialism/postcolonialism. This book explores how ‘oraliterature’ and cultural traditions informed Kunene’s poetry, how Kunene’s poetry highlights African women and mothers, and how activism, mythology and transnational identities are depicted in his verse to promote cultural and generational continuities from Africa to the Diasporic Africans. Drawing on a range of interviews and comparative studies, the book situates Kunene’s work in a wider conversation about South African social struggles. This book is an important contribution to our understanding of one of the giants of African literary history. As such, it will be of interest to researchers across African literary and postcolonial studies.