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Author : Emma Ngumoha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Folk Tradition in Okigbo's Poetry written by Emma Ngumoha and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 146 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 : Christopher Okigbo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Heavensgate written by Christopher Okigbo and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernth Lindfors
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780852555750
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (557 download)
Download or read book Black African Literature in English, 1997-1999 written by Bernth Lindfors and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume lists the work produced on anglophone black African literature between 1997 and 1999. This bibliographic work is a continuation of the highly acclaimed earlier volumes compiled by Bernth Lindfors. Containing about 10,000 entries, some of which are annotated to identify the authors discussed, it covers books, periodical articles, papers in edited collections and selective coverage of other relevant sources.
Author : Curwen Best
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039117161
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Kamau Brathwaite and Christopher Okigbo written by Curwen Best and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comparative work of its kind to provide an extended analysis of the contribution of Kamau Brathwaite and Christopher Okigbo. It considers the poetic works of these two artists as they responded to the transformations taking place within Africa and the Caribbean during the Independence period. Some of the issues discussed include: politics and art, religion, spirituality, traditional culture versus popular culture, language and identity, literature and orality, cyber-culture and identity. This book highlights some of the similarities and differences in the life and work of these two poets and examines various aspects of their style. It provides a clearer understanding of the stances these artists took on crucial issues that would shape the face of their respective societies way beyond the Independence period.
Author : Obi Nwakanma
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 184701013X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Christopher Okigbo, 1930-67 written by Obi Nwakanma and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the Nigerian poet whose work combined Igbo mysticism and classical influences.
Author : Véronique Tadjo
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143027484
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)
Download or read book As the Crow Flies written by Véronique Tadjo and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrative of this wonderful gem of a novel weaves together a rich tapestry of characters who are both nameless and faceless, representing everyman and everywoman, to tell stories of parting and return, suffering, healing and desire in a lyrical and moving exploration of the human heart. Like a bird in flight, the reader travels across a borderless landscape composed of tales of daily existence, news reports, allegories and ancestral myths, becoming aware in the course of the journey of the interconnection of individual lives.
Author : Michael J. C. Echeruo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Concordance to the Poems of Christopher Okigbo (with the Complete Text of the Poems, 1957-1967) written by Michael J. C. Echeruo and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to offer readers and scholars of Christopher Okigbo's poetry a tool for tracking the poet's words and phrases, examining his revisions, and understanding his style and vocabulary.
Author : Nathan Suhr-Sytsma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316739015
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature written by Nathan Suhr-Sytsma and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349861014
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Commonwealth Literature written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eldred D. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780865432147
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Question of Language in African Literature Today written by Eldred D. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernth Lindfors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Folklore in Nigerian Literature written by Bernth Lindfors and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert S. Gérard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027274681
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 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 1986-01-01 with total page 1296 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 essay stresses the millennia of writing in Africa, side by side with a richly eloquent and artistic set of vernacular oral traditions; written and oral traditions have become interwoven in adaptations of imported forms and linguistic innovations that challenge traditional “high” literary norms. Gérard uses the mathematical concept of “fuzzy sets” to explain why the focus on “Black Africa” has led him to set aside for future analysis the literatures produced in North Africa, which fall under the influence of Muslim civilization, as well as the diasporic literatures of the New World. Over sixty scholars from twenty-two countries contribute specialized studies of creative writing by leading authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries such as Achebe, Mphahlele, Ngugi, Senghor, Soyinka, and Tutuola. Critical analyses are organized primarily around regions, reflecting different colonial languages imposed through schools and other social institutions. Some authors trace the adaptation of western genres, others identify syncretism with folktales or myths. The volumes are attentive to the heterogeneity of national literatures addressed to polyethnic and multilingual populations, and they note the instrumental politics of language in newly independent states. A closing chapter, “Tasks Ahead,” identifies areas for future scholars to explore.
Author : Eugene Benson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134468482
Total Pages : 1950 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English written by Eugene Benson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 1950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Author : Atukwei Okai
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 0992187516
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Mandela the Spear and Other Poems written by Atukwei Okai and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strength of Mandela the Spear and other Poems lies in Okai's burning desire to celebrate the black experience and culture, through the iconic figures who symbolize those struggles and triumphs. Thus, not surprisingly, one encounters names like Mandela, Nadine Gordimer, Amilcar Cabral, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, to name a few. Okai has long established himself as one of the towering figures in the field of modern African poetry in English. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of a vigorous reinvention of the poetic genre that revolutionized the poet/audience relationship, changed the mode of expression from scriptography to narratology, and the role of the audience from that of passive reception to active participation.
Author : Gerald Moore
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141912901
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry written by Gerald Moore and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 : Dike Okoro
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000827801
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Mazisi Kunene written by Dike Okoro and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence. Kunene is widely recognized for his epic poems that assert cultural identity and condemn the disruption of the growth and development of African culture through colonialism/postcolonialism. This book explores how ‘oraliterature’ and cultural traditions informed Kunene’s poetry, how Kunene’s poetry highlights African women and mothers, and how activism, mythology and transnational identities are depicted in his verse to promote cultural and generational continuities from Africa to the Diasporic Africans. Drawing on a range of interviews and comparative studies, the book situates Kunene’s work in a wider conversation about South African social struggles. This book is an important contribution to our understanding of one of the giants of African literary history. As such, it will be of interest to researchers across African literary and postcolonial studies.
