West African Poetry

Name: West African Poetry
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521312233
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A Critical History

Autor: Robert Fraser

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Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on...

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Autor

Robert Fraser

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engleză

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Publicat

1986

Pagini

364

EAN

9780521312233

ISBN

052131223X

Enbook ID

02027371

Editura

Cambridge University Press

Greutate

540

Dimensiuni

152 x 228 x 27

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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.

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