Author : A. D. Amateshe
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
An Anthology of East Africa Poetryis a collection of recent poems from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zimbabwe. It has been prepared for secondary school pupils and first year undergraduates.
Author : David Cook
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789966460196
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 : Jonathan Kariara
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Three Continents
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780894108914
This anthology presents the voices of a new generation of African poets, drawn from across the continent and representing a wide range of themes, styles and ideologies. These contemporary voices have been shaped in the realities of postcolonial Africa from the mid-1970s to the end of the 1990s.
Author : Barack Wandera
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,90 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9789914985733
Author : Deborah Kapchan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1477318518
Poetic Justice is the first anthology of contemporary Moroccan poetry in English. The work is primarily composed of poets who began writing after Moroccan independence in 1956 and includes work written in Moroccan Arabic (darija), classical Arabic, French, and Tamazight. Why Poetic Justice? Moroccan poetry (and especially zajal, oral poetry now written in Moroccan Arabic) is often published in newspapers and journals and is thus a vibrant form of social commentary; what’s more, there is a law, a justice, in the aesthetic act that speaks back to the law of the land. Poetic Justice because literature has the power to shape the cultural and moral imagination in profound and just ways. Reading this oeuvre from independence until the new millennium and beyond, it is clear that what poet Driss Mesnaoui calls the “letters of time” have long been in the hands of Moroccan poets, as they write their ethics, their aesthetics, as well as their gendered and political lives into poetic being.
Author : Adil Babikir
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 149621563X
Spanning more than six decades of Sudan’s post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan’s most renowned modern poets, largely unknown in the United States. Adil Babikir’s extensive introduction provides a conceptual framework to help the English reader understand the cultural context. Translated from Arabic, the collection addresses a wide range of themes—identity, love, politics, Sufism, patriotism, war, and philosophy—capturing the evolution of Sudan’s modern history and cultural intersections. Modern Sudanese Poetry features voices as diverse as the country’s ethnic, cultural, and natural composition. By bringing these voices together, Babikir provides a glimpse of Sudan’s poetry scene as well as the country’s modern history and post-independence trajectory.
Author : Michael S. Harper
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 030776513X
In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets. From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born Phillis Wheatley to the wistful lyricism of Paul Lawrence Dunbar . . . the rigorous wisdom of Gwendolyn Brooks...the chiseled modernism of Robert Hayden...the extraordinary prosody of Sterling A. Brown...the breathtaking, expansive narratives of Rita Dove...the plaintive rhapsodies of an imprisoned Elderidge Knight . . . The postmodern artistry of Yusef Komunyaka. Here, too, is a landmark exploration of lesser-known artists whose efforts birthed the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movements--and changed forever our national literature and the course of America itself. Meticulously researched, thoughtfully structured, The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry is a collection of inestimable value to students, educators, and all those interested in the ever-evolving tradition that is American poetry.
Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 1986-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521312233
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 : Amandina Lihamba
Publisher : Feminist Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 34,64 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :
Third installment of major literary and scholarly project exposes East African women's history and culture.
