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Author: Shyam S. Agarwalla
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Richard J. Gray II
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-09-23
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0786475587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Gerald Moore
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2007-08-30
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 0141912901
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'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
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 278
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ruth Finnegan
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2012-09
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13: 1906924708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2014-09-17
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1476617058
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: David Cook
Publisher: East African Publishers
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9789966460196
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Michael Francis Dei-Anang
Publisher:
Published: 1952
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780811530163
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-09-13
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780521398343
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa.
Author: Robert Fraser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-09-04
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780521312233
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on its relationship to various European schools. This book examines West African poetry in English and French against the background of oral poetry in the vernacular. Do the roots of such poetry lie in Africa or in Europe? In committing their work to writing, do poets lose more than they gain? Can the immediacy of oral performance ever be recovered? Robert Fraser's account of two centuries of West African verse examines its subjugation to a succession of international styles: from the heroic couplet to the austerity of experimental Modernism. Successive chapters take us through the Négritude movement and the emergence of anglophone free verse in the 1950s to the rediscovery in recent years of the neglected springs of orality, which is the subject of the concluding chapter.
