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Author : Romanus N. Egudu
Publisher : Enugu, Nigeria : Nwankwo-Ifejika
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Poetic Heritage: Igbo Traditional Verse written by Romanus N. Egudu and published by Enugu, Nigeria : Nwankwo-Ifejika. This book was released on 1971 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Igbo Traditional Verse written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gloria Monica T. Emezue
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9783603418
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Comparative Studies in African Dirge Poetry written by Gloria Monica T. Emezue and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2001 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521312233
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)
Download or read book West African Poetry written by Robert Fraser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-09-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Margaret Read MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135917213
Total Pages : 1042 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Traditional Storytelling Today written by Margaret Read MacDonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Storytelling Today explores the diversity of contemporary storytelling traditions and provides a forum for in-depth discussion of interesting facets of comtemporary storytelling. Never before has such a wealth of information about storytelling traditions been gathered together. Storytelling is alive and well throughout the world as the approximately 100 articles by more than 90 authors make clear. Most of the essays average 2,000 words and discuss a typical storytelling event, give a brief sample text, and provide theory from the folklorist. A comprehensive index is provided. Bibliographies afford the reader easy access to additional resources.
Author : Romanus N. Egudu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nnabuenyi Ugonna and the Growth of Igbo Traditional Literary Studies written by Romanus N. Egudu and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abu Shardow Abarry
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566394031
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book African Intellectual Heritage written by Abu Shardow Abarry and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized by major themes—such as creation stories, and resistance to oppression—this collection gather works of imagination, politics and history, religion, and culture from many societies and across recorded time. Asante and Abarry marshal together ancient, anonymous writers whose texts were originally written on stone and papyri and the well-known public figures of more recent times whose spoken and written words have shaped the intellectual history of the diaspora. Within this remarkably wide-ranging volume are such sources as prayers and praise songs from ancient Kemet and Ethiopia along with African American spirituals; political commentary from C.L.R. James, Malcolm X, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Joseph Nyerere; stirring calls for social justice from David Walker, Abdias Nacimento, Franzo Fanon, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Featuring newly translated texts and ocuments published for the first time, the volume also includes an African chronology, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography. With this landmark book, Asante and Abarry offer a major contribution to the ongoing debates on defining the African canon. Author note:Molefi Kete Asanteis Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Temple University and author of several books, includingThe Afrocentric Idea(Temple) andThe Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans.Abu S. Abarryis Assistant Chair of African American Studies at Temple University.
Author : Sam Uzochukwu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Traditional Funeral Poetry of the Igbo written by Sam Uzochukwu and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Umeasiegbu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004667393
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Words Are Sweet written by Umeasiegbu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donatus Ibe Nwoga
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780894102585
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Christopher Okigbo written by Donatus Ibe Nwoga and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Romanus N. Egudu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349159433
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Modern African Poetry and the African Predicament written by Romanus N. Egudu and published by Springer. This book was released on 1978-10-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olakunle George
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253029325
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book African Literature and Social Change written by Olakunle George and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “George rethinks the entirety of African literature by considering texts from the 19th century and mid-20th century alongside canonical texts.” —Neil ten Kortenaar, author of Debt, Law, Realism Alert to the ways in which critical theory and imaginative literature can enrich each other, African Literature and Social Change reframes the ongoing project of African literature. Concentrating on texts that are not usually considered together—writings by little-known black missionaries, so called “black whitemen,” and better-known 20th century intellectuals and creative writers—Olakunle George shows the ways in which these writings have addressed notions of ethnicity, nation, and race and how the debates need to be rehistoricized today. George presents Africa as a site of complex desires and contradictions, refashioning the way African literature is positioned within current discussions of globalism, diaspora, and postcolonialism. “A bold exploration of the complexity of different modes of writing about Africa in the context of current debates on the nature of the literary in the production of African knowledge. Concerned with a rhetoric of self-writing as it has developed over two hundred years, Olakunle George attends to local details within the larger configurations of colonial discourse in this ambitious and timely work. It is a caution against the neglect of the conditions of possibility that made an African literature possible.” —Simon Gikandi, author of Slavery and the Culture of Taste “A new and welcome addition to the field of African literary studies, Olakunle George’s African Literature and Social Change is dense where it needs to be and glories in productive close readings when its objects call for it.” —Comparative Literature Studies
Author : Helen Chukwuma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Igbo Oral Literature written by Helen Chukwuma and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ebeogu, Afam
Publisher : African Heritage Press
ISBN 13 : 194072919X
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Ethnosensitive Dimensions of African Oral Literature written by Ebeogu, Afam and published by African Heritage Press. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnosensitive Dimensions of African Oral Literature: Igbo Perspectives is a collection of nineteen essays spanning all genres of African Oral literature, from the poetic genre to the rhetorical genre. Part One of the book is introductory, and includes three essays that are of a general kind, touching all aspects of the genres, while Part Two includes six essays concerned with the poetic genre. Part Three, made up of two essays and concern the prose genre while Part Four, of two essays, examines the drama genre. Part Five, made up of three essays, addresses the rhetorical genre, and Part Six has three essays that cut across all the genres. The contributions examine the implications of ethnocentric imperatives of oral literature in relation to nationalistic demands.
Author : Dubem Okafor
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865435551
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (355 download)
Download or read book The Dance of Death written by Dubem Okafor and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kenneth Usongo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527580830
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Cultural and Historical Heritage of Colonialism written by Kenneth Usongo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the time since most African countries achieved independence from European colonial powers, it is unfortunate that these nations are still politically, economically, and culturally reordered by their former colonisers. This book argues that these nations often slavishly emulate Western values to the detriment of indigenous ones. It challenges the postcolony to ground itself in local experience and then nativise external values, which entails delicately sifting through both the domestic and foreign worlds to build a decent and humane society.
Author : Albert S. Gérard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789630538329
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (383 download)
Download or read book European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Albert S. Gérard and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major comparative study of African writing in western languages, European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Albert S. Gérard, falls into four wide-ranging sections: an overview of early contacts and colonial developments "Under Western Eyes"; chapters on "Black Consciousness" manifest in the debates over Panafricanism and Negritude; a group of essays on mental decolonization expressed in "Black Power" texts at the time of independence struggles; and finally "Comparative Vistas," sketching directions that future comparative study might explore. An introductory e.
