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Language, Translation, and Poetic Realities: The Poetry (Àfàìmò Àti Àwon Àròfò Mìíràn) of Akínwùmí Ìsòlá

Language, Translation, and Poetic Realities: The Poetry (Àfàìmò Àti Àwon Àròfò Mìíràn) of Akínwùmí Ìsòlá

Òjó, Akinloyè

Hardcover

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1501390627
ISBN13: 9781501390623
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 19 2026
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Akínwùmí Ìsòlá (1940-2018), renowned writer, scholar, and sentinel of indigenous African languages, contributed to the development of Yorùbá literary traditions by producing most of his literary works in Yorùbá.

His artistic pacesetting in Yorùbá literature included his anthology, Àfàìmò Àti Àwon Àròfò Mìíràn (1978), which contains poems composed over a significant period in his life. Language, Translation, and Poetic Realities considers Ìsòlá's language use in this anthology; his contributions to the promotion of Yorùbá and African linguistic and cultural values; and the procedures, benefits, and challenges of translating his poetry into English.

In so doing, Akinloyè Òjó examines the understudied relationship between African oral traditions and contemporary African literature, addressing in particular the influential role of traditional forms of praise-singing in contemporary Yorùbá poetry.

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