Author: Okot p'Bitek
Publisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 147860994X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
During his lifetime, Okot pBitek was concerned that African nations, including his native Uganda, be built on African and not European foundations. Traditional African songs became a regular feature in his work, including this pair of poems, originally written in Acholi and translated into English. Lawinos wordsin the first poemare not fancy, but their creative patterns convey compelling images that reveal her dismay over encroaching Western traditions and her Westernized husbands behavior. Ocols poem underlines Lawinos points and confirms her view of him as a demeaning and arrogant person whose political energies and obsession with wasting time are destructive to his family and his community. The gripping poems of Lawino and Ocol capture two opposing approaches to the cultural future of Africa at the time and paint a picture that belongs in every modern readers cognitive gallery.
Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol
Author: Okot p'Bitek
Publisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 147860994X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
During his lifetime, Okot pBitek was concerned that African nations, including his native Uganda, be built on African and not European foundations. Traditional African songs became a regular feature in his work, including this pair of poems, originally written in Acholi and translated into English. Lawinos wordsin the first poemare not fancy, but their creative patterns convey compelling images that reveal her dismay over encroaching Western traditions and her Westernized husbands behavior. Ocols poem underlines Lawinos points and confirms her view of him as a demeaning and arrogant person whose political energies and obsession with wasting time are destructive to his family and his community. The gripping poems of Lawino and Ocol capture two opposing approaches to the cultural future of Africa at the time and paint a picture that belongs in every modern readers cognitive gallery.
Publisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 147860994X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
During his lifetime, Okot pBitek was concerned that African nations, including his native Uganda, be built on African and not European foundations. Traditional African songs became a regular feature in his work, including this pair of poems, originally written in Acholi and translated into English. Lawinos wordsin the first poemare not fancy, but their creative patterns convey compelling images that reveal her dismay over encroaching Western traditions and her Westernized husbands behavior. Ocols poem underlines Lawinos points and confirms her view of him as a demeaning and arrogant person whose political energies and obsession with wasting time are destructive to his family and his community. The gripping poems of Lawino and Ocol capture two opposing approaches to the cultural future of Africa at the time and paint a picture that belongs in every modern readers cognitive gallery.
Song of a Prisoner
Author: Okot p'Bitek
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Song of Prisoner confronts the tragedy of Africa's decade of freedom. The traverses the whole spectrum of her political sickness and contrasts it with the enduring reality of the bush - roots of family and clan, and the optimism of Africa's children in the face of hunger, hardship and humiliation.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Song of Prisoner confronts the tragedy of Africa's decade of freedom. The traverses the whole spectrum of her political sickness and contrasts it with the enduring reality of the bush - roots of family and clan, and the optimism of Africa's children in the face of hunger, hardship and humiliation.
The Aesthetic Discourse of the Arts
Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792360063
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The fine arts first emerged divided by the five senses yet, since their very origin, they have projected aesthetic networks among themselves. Music, song, painting, architecture, sculpture, theatre, dance -- distinct in themselves -- grew together, enhancing each other. In the present outburst of technical ingeniosity, individual arts cross all barriers, as well as proliferate in kind. Hence the traditional criteria of appreciation and enjoyment vanish. The enlarged and ever-growing field calls for new principles of appreciation and new values, essential to our culture. This collection initiates an inquiry into the aesthetic foundations of the fine arts. Their common aesthetic nature, as well as the differentiating specificities which sustain them, might reveal the universal role of aesthetics in human life.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792360063
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The fine arts first emerged divided by the five senses yet, since their very origin, they have projected aesthetic networks among themselves. Music, song, painting, architecture, sculpture, theatre, dance -- distinct in themselves -- grew together, enhancing each other. In the present outburst of technical ingeniosity, individual arts cross all barriers, as well as proliferate in kind. Hence the traditional criteria of appreciation and enjoyment vanish. The enlarged and ever-growing field calls for new principles of appreciation and new values, essential to our culture. This collection initiates an inquiry into the aesthetic foundations of the fine arts. Their common aesthetic nature, as well as the differentiating specificities which sustain them, might reveal the universal role of aesthetics in human life.
Wer pa Lawino
Author: Okot p'Bitek
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acoli poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acoli poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Horn of My Love
Author: Okot p'Bitek
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Make it Sing & Other Poems
Author: Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966466471
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966466471
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Lak tar
Author: Okot p'Bitek
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acholi language
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acholi language
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
White Teeth
Author: Okot p'Bitek
Publisher: East African Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
First published in Acoli as Lak Tar, this novel from the late Ugandan author of Song of Lawino, Song of Ocol and other major works, is the story of society on the threshold of change. A young Acoli man wishes to marry but cannot raise the bridewealth. He travels to Kampala to find work, and the author humorously relates his efforts.
Publisher: East African Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
First published in Acoli as Lak Tar, this novel from the late Ugandan author of Song of Lawino, Song of Ocol and other major works, is the story of society on the threshold of change. A young Acoli man wishes to marry but cannot raise the bridewealth. He travels to Kampala to find work, and the author humorously relates his efforts.
The Defence of Lawino
Author: Okot p'Bitek
Publisher: Fountain Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A new translation of the late Okot p'Bitek's classic epic poem 'Wer pa Lawino', first published in Acholi in 1969, and recently listed in Africa's 100 Best Books. Lawino is a female voice, taking issue with her husband whom she witnesses imitating a European culture which is destroying a more deeply rooted African culture.
Publisher: Fountain Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A new translation of the late Okot p'Bitek's classic epic poem 'Wer pa Lawino', first published in Acholi in 1969, and recently listed in Africa's 100 Best Books. Lawino is a female voice, taking issue with her husband whom she witnesses imitating a European culture which is destroying a more deeply rooted African culture.
The Power of Kiowa Song
Author: Luke E. Lassiter
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816518357
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
ca. .06 cubic ft
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816518357
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
ca. .06 cubic ft