The Penguin Book Of Modern African Poetry
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Author | : Gerald Moore |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2007-08-30 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141912901 |
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'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries, thirty-one of whom appear for the first time. Equally wide-ranging is the content of the poetry itself: war songs and political protests jostle with poems about human love, African nature and the surprises that life offers; all are represented in these rich and colourful pages.
Author | : Gerald Moore |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-09-14 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0140424725 |
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A new edition of the definitive collection of modern poetry from Africa "Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa," writes Gerald Moore, "has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama." Now revised and expanded, this comprehensive anthology features the work of ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries; thirty-one of the poets appear here for the first time. War songs, satires, and political protests jostle with poems about love, nature, and the surprises of life, offering a rich and wide-ranging body of creative work. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author | : Ulli Beier |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gerald Moore |
Publisher | : Penguin (Non-Classics) |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Stephen Gray |
Publisher | : Puffin Books |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download The Penguin Book of Southern African Verse Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Gathers poems by writers from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Mozambique, Angola, Malawi, Namibia, and Zambia.
Author | : Robert Fraser |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1986-09-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521312233 |
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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 | : Gerald Moore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jonathan P. Smithe |
Publisher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781590332900 |
Download African Literature Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
African literature, like the continent itself is enormous and diverse. East Africa's literature is different from West Africa's which is quite different from South Africa's which has different influences on it than North Africa's. Africa's literature is based on a widespread heritage of oral literature, some of which has now been recorded. Arabic influence can be detected as well as European, especially French and English. Legends, myths, proverbs, riddles and folktales form the mother load of the oral literature. This book presents an overview of African literature as well as a comprehensive bibliography, primarily of English language sources. Accessed by subject, author and title indexes.
Author | : Frank M Chipasula |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2009-08-05 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0809386380 |
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From the ancient Egyptian inventors of the love lyric to contemporary poets, Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Love Poetry gathers together both written and sung love poetry from Africa. This anthology is a work of literary archaeology that lays bare a genre of African poetry that has been overshadowed by political poetry. Frank Chipasula has assembled a historically and geographically comprehensive wealth of African love poetry that spans more than three thousand years. By collecting a continent’s celebrations and explorations of the nature of love, he expands African literature into the sublime territory of the heart. Bending the Bow traces the development of African love poetry from antiquity to modernity while establishing a cross-millennial dialogue. The anonymously written love poems fromPharaonic Egypt that open the anthology both predate Biblical love poetry and reveal the longevity of written love poetry in Africa. The middle section is devoted to sung love poetry from all regions of the continent. These great works serve as the foundation for modern poetry and testify to love poetry’s omnipresence in Africa. The final section, showcasing forty-eight modern African poets, celebrates the genre’s continuing vitality. Among those represented are Muyaka bin Hajji and Shaaban Robert,two major Swahili poets; Gabriel Okara, the innovative though underrated Nigerian poet; Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first president of Senegal and a founder of the Negritude Movement in francophone African literature; Rashidah Ismaili from Benin; Flavien Ranaivo from Madagascar; and Gabeba Baderoon from South Africa. Ranging from the subtly suggestive to the openly erotic, this collection highlights love’s endurance in a world too often riven by contention. Bending the Bow bears testimony to poetry’s role as conciliator while opening up a new area of study for scholars and students.
Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 941 |
Release | : 2012-01-31 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1101578149 |
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