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Alt 6 Poetry in Africa: African Literature Today: A Review

Alt 6 Poetry in Africa: African Literature Today: A Review

Jones, Eldred
Jones, Eldred

Paperback

Series: African Literature Today (Hardcover), Book 6

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1847011195
ISBN13: 9781847011190
Publisher: James Currey
Published: Jan 31 1973
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism.

First published in 1973, this volume of the series includes a tribute from the Editor to the poet Christopher Okigbo who died fighting in the Biafran War in 1967, and two articles on his poetry. Also discussed are Leopold Senghor, Dennis Brutus, Wole Soyinka, Lenrie Peters and Ferdinand Oyono. The contributions analyse East African poetry, French Algerian poetry, Zulu poetry, and Rara chants in Yoruba oral poetry. Donatus I. Nwoga writes a general article on modern African poetry. The new books reviewed include Mazisi Kunene's Zulu Poems and Okot p'Bitek's Two Songs: Song of Prisoner and Song of Malaya and Taban lo Liyong's Another Nigger Dead.

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