West African Poetry

Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,9 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.

Author : Tijan M. Sallah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015040692512

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New Poets of West Africa by Tijan M. Sallah Pdf

One of Gambia's leading young poets and writers is the editor of this collection of new voices of poetry from West Africa. The countries covered are Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. A brief biographical note is included on each poet, and a selection of their poems. The poets were selected as the most representative of the new and variegated scene of contemporary West African poetic creativity and life.

Author : Romanus N. Egudu
Publisher : New York : NOK Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : UCAL:B3182763

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Four Modern West African Poets by Romanus N. Egudu Pdf

Author : Donatus Ibe Nwoga
Publisher : Humanities Press International
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015016457601

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West African Verse by Donatus Ibe Nwoga Pdf

Author : Donatus Ibe Nwoga
Publisher : Humanities Press International
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035032585

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West African Verse by Donatus Ibe Nwoga Pdf

Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781906924706

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Oral Literature in Africa by Ruth Finnegan Pdf

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 : Olumbe Bassir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : African poetry
ISBN : UCAL:$B135388

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An Anthology of West African Verse by Olumbe Bassir Pdf

Author : Kofi Awoonor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129770934

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Rediscovery by Kofi Awoonor Pdf

Author : Richard J. Gray II
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786475582

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Francophone African Poetry and Drama by Richard J. Gray II Pdf

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 : Wayne Visser
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780957081741

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I Am An African by Wayne Visser Pdf

Author : David Cook,David Rubadiri
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9966460195

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Poems from East Africa by David Cook,David Rubadiri Pdf

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 : Oludamini Ogunnaike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Islamic poetry
ISBN : 1911141465

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Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection by Oludamini Ogunnaike Pdf

The vibrant tradition of West African Arabic poetry is dominated by the genre of madih, that is, poetry in praise of the Prophet Muhammad. This genre of poetry has been mostly ignored in Western scholarship and dismissed as mere 'pious praise' lacking any significant intellectual content. In Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection, Dr Oludamimi Ogunnaike challenges the misconceptions around West African madih poetry and addresses the scope and depth of this genre; he not only explores its rich lyrical nature and its foundations in the Qur'an, Hadith, pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry, but also its inextricable link to Sufism and Sufi doctrines of cosmology, ontology and epistemology. Drawing on Sufi traditions and practices, the author expounds on the various ways in which West African madih poetry both describes and facilitates the ultimate fulfilment of the human potential, the Perfect Human (al-Insan al-Kamil) or the attainment of the Praiseworthy Station (al-Maqam al-Mahmud) of which the Prophet Muhammad is the highest example. Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection includes translations of numerous extracts from madih poetry (accompanied by the original Arabic); while the Appendix presents a selection of complete poems--the most popular and influential poems of this tradition. Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection is an opportunity for readers to gain access and appreciation of a unique genre of spiritual Islamic poetry, and, given that it includes the original Arabic, also enables the recitation of the poetry for devotional purposes.

Author : Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : 1505984343

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Questions for Ada by Ijeoma Umebinyuo Pdf

The poet uses the artistry of words to embody the pain, the passion, and the power of love rising from the depths of our souls.

Author : David Rubadiri
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9966253386

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An African Thunderstorm & Other Poems by David Rubadiri Pdf

Author : Gerald Moore,Ulli Beier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : African poetry
ISBN : OCLC:829231450

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Modern Poetry from Africa; by Gerald Moore,Ulli Beier Pdf