Author: Adewale Maja-Pearce
Publisher: Heinemann International Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This anthology represents some of the best African poetry written in English in the last 30 years. The poets include Wole Soyinka, Dennis Brutus, Kojo Laing, Chenjerai Hove and Gabriel Gbadamosi.
The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English
Author: Adewale Maja-Pearce
Publisher: Heinemann International Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This anthology represents some of the best African poetry written in English in the last 30 years. The poets include Wole Soyinka, Dennis Brutus, Kojo Laing, Chenjerai Hove and Gabriel Gbadamosi.
Publisher: Heinemann International Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This anthology represents some of the best African poetry written in English in the last 30 years. The poets include Wole Soyinka, Dennis Brutus, Kojo Laing, Chenjerai Hove and Gabriel Gbadamosi.
The Heinemann Book of African Women's Poetry
Author: Stella Chipasula
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This first major anthology of African women's poetry offers an extensive selection of poetry by women all over the African continent.
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This first major anthology of African women's poetry offers an extensive selection of poetry by women all over the African continent.
The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories
Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435905668
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A collection of 20 stories written between 1980-1991 which deal with themes relevant to various regions of Africa.
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435905668
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A collection of 20 stories written between 1980-1991 which deal with themes relevant to various regions of Africa.
The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry
Author: Ian McDonald
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435988173
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This collection is an invaluable academic selection and will provide a fine introduction for the general reader interested in the lyricism of Caribbean poetry.
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435988173
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This collection is an invaluable academic selection and will provide a fine introduction for the general reader interested in the lyricism of Caribbean poetry.
Of Chameleons and Gods
Author: Jack Mapanje
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435911942
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A volume of poetry written by a Malawi prisoner of conscience during his ten-year imprisonment.
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435911942
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A volume of poetry written by a Malawi prisoner of conscience during his ten-year imprisonment.
As the Crow Flies
Author: Véronique Tadjo
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 0143027484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
The narrative of this wonderful gem of a novel weaves together a rich tapestry of characters who are both nameless and faceless, representing everyman and everywoman, to tell stories of parting and return, suffering, healing and desire in a lyrical and moving exploration of the human heart. Like a bird in flight, the reader travels across a borderless landscape composed of tales of daily existence, news reports, allegories and ancestral myths, becoming aware in the course of the journey of the interconnection of individual lives.
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 0143027484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
The narrative of this wonderful gem of a novel weaves together a rich tapestry of characters who are both nameless and faceless, representing everyman and everywoman, to tell stories of parting and return, suffering, healing and desire in a lyrical and moving exploration of the human heart. Like a bird in flight, the reader travels across a borderless landscape composed of tales of daily existence, news reports, allegories and ancestral myths, becoming aware in the course of the journey of the interconnection of individual lives.
Understanding African Poetry
Author: K. L. Goodwin
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
West African Poetry
Author: Robert Fraser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521312233
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521312233
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
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.
The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies
Author: William A. Katz
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231101042
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Reference guide to poetry anthologies with descriptions and evaluations of each anthology.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231101042
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Reference guide to poetry anthologies with descriptions and evaluations of each anthology.
The Granta Book of the African Short Story
Author: Helon Habila
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1847084389
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent, from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya. Helon Habila focuses on younger, newer writers - contrasted with some of their older, more established peers - to give a fascinating picture of a new and more liberated Africa. These writers are characterized by their engagement with the wider world and the opportunities offered by the end of apartheid, the end of civil wars and dictatorships, and the possibilities of free movement. Their work is inspired by travel and exile. They are liberated, global and expansive. As Dambudzo Marechera wrote: 'If you're a writer for a specific nation or specific race, then f*** you." These are the stories of a new Africa, punchy, self-confident and defiant. Includes stories by: Fatou Diome; Aminatta Forna; Manuel Rui; Patrice Nganang; Leila Aboulela; Zo Wicomb; Alaa Al Aswany; Doreen Baingana; E.C. Osondu.
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1847084389
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent, from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya. Helon Habila focuses on younger, newer writers - contrasted with some of their older, more established peers - to give a fascinating picture of a new and more liberated Africa. These writers are characterized by their engagement with the wider world and the opportunities offered by the end of apartheid, the end of civil wars and dictatorships, and the possibilities of free movement. Their work is inspired by travel and exile. They are liberated, global and expansive. As Dambudzo Marechera wrote: 'If you're a writer for a specific nation or specific race, then f*** you." These are the stories of a new Africa, punchy, self-confident and defiant. Includes stories by: Fatou Diome; Aminatta Forna; Manuel Rui; Patrice Nganang; Leila Aboulela; Zo Wicomb; Alaa Al Aswany; Doreen Baingana; E.C. Osondu.