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Author: Uzoma Esonwanne
Publisher: Twayne Publishers
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the best and most widely anthologized Nigerian poets, ("Heavensgate, Limits" and "Silences") he was killed while fighting in the war for Biafran independence from Nigeria.
Author: Donatus Ibe Nwoga
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780894102585
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of essays and reviews, both favourable and negative, about the Igbo poet. The book begins with a memorial essay by Chinua Achebe. Other contributors examine the imagery that Okigbo drew from nature, history and politics, exploring the surrealistic qualities of his work.
Author: Nathan Suhr-Sytsma
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-07-10
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1316739015
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature reveals an intriguing history of relationships among poets and editors from Ireland and Nigeria, as well as Britain and the Caribbean, during the mid-twentieth-century era of decolonization. The book explores what such leading anglophone poets as Seamus Heaney, Christopher Okigbo, and Derek Walcott had in common: 'peripheral' origins and a desire to address transnational publics without expatriating themselves. The book reconstructs how they gained the imprimatur of both local and London-based cultural institutions. It shows, furthermore, how political crises challenged them to reconsider their poetry's publics. Making substantial use of unpublished archival material, Nathan Suhr-Sytsma examines poems in print, often the pages on which they first appeared, in order to chart the transformation of the anglophone literary world. He argues that these poets' achievements cannot be extricated from the transnational networks through which their poems circulated - and which they in turn remade.
Author: Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui
Publisher: Okpaku Communications Corporation
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Obi Nwakanma
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 184701013X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Biography of the Nigerian poet whose work combined Igbo mysticism and classical influences.
Author: Dubem Okafor
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780865435551
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Christopher Okigbo (1932-1967) was one of Africa's foremost poets until his life was cut short by the Biafran civil war. This work analyses his poetry and considers its importance as prophecy in the light of the current concern about the direction of the Nigerian government.
Author: Christopher Okigbo
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jahan Ramazani
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-09-04
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780226703374
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous—“stubbornly national,” in T. S. Eliot’s phrase, or “the most provincial of the arts,” according to W. H. Auden. But in A Transnational Poetics, Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies of the poetic imagination—in modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; in post–World War II North America and the North Atlantic; and in ethnic American, postcolonial, and black British writing. Cross-cultural exchange and influence are, he argues, among the chief engines of poetic development in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Reexamining the work of a wide array of poets, from Eliot, Yeats, and Langston Hughes to Elizabeth Bishop, Lorna Goodison, and Agha Shahid Ali, Ramazani reveals the many ways in which modern and contemporary poetry in English overflows national borders and exceeds the scope of national literary paradigms. Through a variety of transnational templates—globalization, migration, travel, genre, influence, modernity, decolonization, and diaspora—he discovers poetic connection and dialogue across nations and even hemispheres.
