Author : Donatus Ibe Nwoga
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780894102585
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 : Curwen Best
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783039117161
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 : Eldred D. Jones
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 19,74 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780865432147
Author : Uzoma Esonwanne
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Nigeria
ISBN :
One of the best and most widely anthologized Nigerian poets, ("Heavensgate, Limits" and "Silences") he was killed while fighting in the war for Biafran independence from Nigeria.
Author : Kimani Njogu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9966028730
In 1996 President Nelson Mandela described Professor Ali A. Mazrui (1933-2014) as "an outstanding educationist and freedom fighter." In 2002 the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan referred to Professor Mazrui as "Africa's gift to the world." Author of more than 35 books and hundreds of articles, Professor Mazrui was an African scholar who had treated with uncommon verve and flair a wide-range of themes that included globalization, the triple heritage, peace, and social justice. This volume engages with some of those themes that excited his mind for over six decades. The multidisciplinary essays seek to underline the highlights of Mazrui's intellectual journey and attest to the fact that he was public intellectual par excellence. Indeed, in 2005, he was named one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world. This book is a product of a symposium held from 15 to 17 July 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya. The symposium was jointly organized by the Twaweza Communications, Nairobi, Kenya, and the Institute of Global Cultural Studies (State University of New York at Binghamton) which Ali Mazrui created and presided over as the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities from 1991 to 2014.
Author : Eldred D. Jones
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
North America: Africa World Press
Author : Dubem Okafor
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1411644891
These essays are "essays," indeed, in the etymological sense of the word, in that they "try out" my ideas on different topics and different texts. As they are developed, they build up to a climactic crescendo of futility, which may be explained, in part, not by the darkening vision of a wizened and aging man, but by the gathering storms, which have tended to becloud the nation-state of Nigeria. ... The milieu from which my essays emerge has not been conducive to any optimistic or celebratory readings of texts and contexts.
Author : Siga Fatima Jagne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136593977
This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers, including Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tahbar Ben Jelloun, among others. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes that appear in the author's writings, an overview of the critical response to the author's work, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. These profiles are written by expert contributors and reflect many different perspectives. The volume concludes with a selected general bibliography of the most important critical works on postcolonial African literature.
Author : Nathan Suhr-Sytsma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107166845
The book reveals how mid-twentieth-century African, Caribbean, Irish, and British poets profoundly affected each other in person and in print.
Author : Jahan Ramazani
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226703371
Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous—“stubbornly national,” in T. S. Eliot’s phrase, or “the most provincial of the arts,” according to W. H. Auden. But in A Transnational Poetics, Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies of the poetic imagination—in modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; in post–World War II North America and the North Atlantic; and in ethnic American, postcolonial, and black British writing. Cross-cultural exchange and influence are, he argues, among the chief engines of poetic development in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Reexamining the work of a wide array of poets, from Eliot, Yeats, and Langston Hughes to Elizabeth Bishop, Lorna Goodison, and Agha Shahid Ali, Ramazani reveals the many ways in which modern and contemporary poetry in English overflows national borders and exceeds the scope of national literary paradigms. Through a variety of transnational templates—globalization, migration, travel, genre, influence, modernity, decolonization, and diaspora—he discovers poetic connection and dialogue across nations and even hemispheres.
