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Breaking the Silence: Anthology of Liberian Poetry

Breaking the Silence: Anthology of Liberian Poetry

Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh

Paperback

Series: African Poetry Book

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 1496233069
ISBN13: 9781496233066
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Mar 1 2023
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Named a Notable African Book of 2023 by Brittle Paper

Breaking the Silence is the first comprehensive collection of literature from Liberia since before the nation's independence. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley has gathered work from the 1800s to the present, including poets and emerging young writers exploring contemporary literary traditions with African and African diaspora poetry that transcends borders. In this collection, Liberia's founding settlers wrestle with their identity as African free slaves in the homeland from which their ancestors were captured, and writers of the early twentieth and twenty-first centuries find themselves navigating a landscape at odds with itself.

From poets of Liberia's past to young writers of the present, the contributors to this volume celebrate the beauty of their nation while mourning the devastation of a long, bloody civil war.

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