Comparative Studies In African Dirge Poetry

Author : Gloria Monica T. Emezue
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789783603417

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Comparative Studies in African Dirge Poetry by Gloria Monica T. Emezue Pdf

Comparative Studies in African Dirge Poetry is an important contribution to research in African literature by Nigerian scholar GMT Emezue. Emezue sets out to portray the role and function of African dirge. Moving from the general (African milieu) to the specific (Igbo heritage) she explores written and oral modes of poetic expressions. Emezue also posits a theory of the African dirge with features comparatively distinctive from the formalised structures of western art. GMT Emezue's interest in traditional African dirge songs and modern poetry is borne from her conviction that nowhere in the corpus of oral poetry have there been more works of heightened creativity than the dirge forms.

Author : E. Egya
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781920033460

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Nation, power and dissidence in third generation Nigerian poetry in English by E. Egya Pdf

Nation, Power and Dissidence in Third Generation Nigerian Poetry in English is a theoretical and analytical survey of the poetry that emerged in Nigeria in the 1980s. Hurt into poetry, the poets collectively raise aesthetics of resistance that dramatises the nationalist imagination bridging the gap between poetry and politics in Nigeria. The emerging generation of poetic voices raises an outcry against the repressive military regimes of the 1980s and 1990s. Ingrained in the tradition of protest literature in Africa, the third-generation poetry is presented here as part of the cultural struggles that unseat military despotism and envisage a democratic society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : African poetry
ISBN : 9789783603516

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African Journal of New Poetry No. 5 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Egya, Sule E.
Publisher : Kraft Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789789180158

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Poetics of Rage by Egya, Sule E. Pdf

This study explores the nationalist imagination, artistic philosophy and the overtly political dimension of Remi Raji’s poetry. It is an attempt to construct a sustained critical discourse on Raji’s ongoing body of works. Raji is one of the major poetic voices on the Nigerian literary scene today. With the publication of his first collection, A Harvest of Laughters, in 1997 Raji has continued to strengthen his craft and vision through subsequent volumes: Webs of Remembrance (2000), Shuttlesongs: America – a Poetic Guided Tour (2003), Lovesong for My Wasteland (2005); and Gather My Blood Rivers of Song (2009). Evidently he has attained poetic maturity and, given the frequency of his output, is set to realise a fulfilled poetic career. His maturation thus far through these five volumes deserves a major critical assessment, and a possible prediction for the direction of his artistic vision.

Author : B. Nyamnjoh,U. Nwosu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956551835

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Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress by B. Nyamnjoh,U. Nwosu Pdf

This book is a timely addition to debates and explorations on the epistemological relevance of African proverbs, especially with growing calls for the decolonisation of African curricula. The editors and contributors have chosen to reflect on the diverse ways of being and becoming African as a permanent work in progress by drawing inspiration from Chinua Achebe's harnessing of the effectualness of oratory, especially his use of proverbs in his works. The book recognises and celebrates the fact that Achebe's proverbial Igbo imaginations of being and becoming African are compelling because they are instructive about the lives, stories, struggles and aspirations of the rainbow of people that make up Africa as a veritable global arena of productive circulations, entanglements and compositeness of being. The contributions foray into how claims to and practices of being and becoming African are steeped in histories of mobilities and a myriad of encounters shaped by and inspiring of the competing and complementary logics of personhood and power that Africans have sought and seek to capture in their repertoires of proverbs. The task of documenting African proverbs and rendering them accessible in the form of a common hard currency with fascinating epistemological possibilities remains a challenge yearning for financial, scholarly, social and political attention. The book is an important contribution to John Mbiti's clarion call for an active and sustained interest in African proverbs.

Author : GMT EMEZUE,INGE KOSCH,MAURICE KANGEL
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789785244601

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JUSTICE AND HUMAN DIGNITY IN AFRICA by GMT EMEZUE,INGE KOSCH,MAURICE KANGEL Pdf

Author : Gloria Monica T. Emezue
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789783503557

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Onuora Ossie Enekwe by Gloria Monica T. Emezue Pdf

This second volume in the Critical Approached series is an exposition of the craft of Nigerian writer, theatre director, poet, dramatist and editor, Onuora Ossie Enekwe. The professor of dramatic literature spent thirty years developing and advancing the drama and graduate curriculum of the University Nsukka and had in addition been editor of Okike. An African Journal of New Writing which was founded by Chinua Achebe.

Author : Chinenye Ce
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789783503403

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Riddle and Bash by Chinenye Ce Pdf

The subsequent parts contain a look at new literatures and emerging tendencies in African writing, plus a chat on new Nigerian poetry and literary criticism. --

Author : Charles Bodunde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133788286

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Text and Theories in Transition by Charles Bodunde Pdf

Author : Irene Marques
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015080877205

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Critical Approaches by Irene Marques Pdf

This book contains scholarly chapters and reviews on the novels and works of Nigerian novelist, poet and critic Chin Ce.

Author : Jaydeep Sarangi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Indic literature (English)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129856030

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Presentations of Postcolonialism in English by Jaydeep Sarangi Pdf

On Savitri, epic poetry by Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213189611

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The African Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chinenye Ce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000124593561

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Bards and Tyrants by Chinenye Ce Pdf

Bards and Tyrants is a collection of essays and book review presentations in literary journals and publisher forums within and outside Nigeria in the last decade by Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic, Chin Ce. In his preface to the volume Ce admits of the inscription of Africa "in two opposing and irremediable directions by her bards and petty tyrants." While one involves "a visionary literati that seek to elevate the potentials of their educational and cultural inheritance" the other embraces "the politics of tyrannosaurs" who hasten to drag the continent to "a state of complete and total degeneracy." For him it is the frightening prospect of this latter possibility that all partakers in contemporary African writing should and must confront. Thus from the journalistic criticism of the Nigerian state to more scholarly essays which evaluate some critical aspects and visions of African writers and critics like Achebe, Ngugi, Soyinka, Nwoga, Chinweizu, Emenyonu, Nnolim and several new poetry, prose and critical voices from around the continent, Chin Ce's arguments for new critical directions in modern African writing reveal some bold, and often sardonic, insights which press us to discern the truth of the argument and the familiarity of his proposition.

Author : Verena Böll
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art, Ethiopian
ISBN : 3447048913

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Studia Aethiopica by Verena Böll Pdf

For over a quarter of a century Siegbert Uhlig has been involved in Ethiopian Studies. As wide as the scope of his interests and contributions to Ethiopian Studies has been, so versatile is the thematic range of the 36 articles in this anthology. The essays in fields such as philology, history, linguistics, anthropology and arts were written by the ethiopisants from Ethiopia, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the USA. The Festschrift also includes an account of Ethiopian Studies in Hamburg, and a selected bibliography of Siegbert Uhlig's publications. An index to the contributions of the collection will be made available on the internet.List of contributors: L. Gerhardt, J. Abbink, H. Amborn, D. Appleyard, B. Zewde, B. Tafla, E. Balicka-Witakowska, A. Bausi, B. Yimam, V. Boll, S. Chernetsov, G. Fiaccadori, G. Haile, G. Gelaye, M. Heldman, O. Kapeliuk, S. Kaplan, M. Kleiner, J. Launhardt, G. Lusini, P. Marrassini, A. Martinez, S. Munro-Hay, D. Nosnitsin, R. Pankhurst, H. Rubinkowska, H. Scholler, S. Bekele, W. Smidt, E. Sokolinskaia, E.J. van Donzel, R. Voigt, E. Wagner, S. Weninger, W. Witakowski, R. Zuurmond, T. Ra

Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1986-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052131223X

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West African Poetry by Robert Fraser Pdf

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.