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ALT 42: Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics
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Edited by:
Ernest N Emenyonu
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With contributions by:
Iquo Diana Abasi
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2024
About this book
Examines the state of African poetry today, the continuing influence of Africa's pioneer poets, today's new generation of poets, and their work in written poetry and in the spoken word, continuing oral indigenous traditions.
Author / Editor information
Emenyonu Ernest N :
Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012).Emenyonu Ernest N :
Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012).Roy Paramita Routh :
Paramita Routh Roy has an MA in English Literature from the University of Calcutta, India. Her research interests include African Literature with special emphasis on Women's Writings, Black Feminism, Masculinity Studies, Gender Studies and Postcolonialism.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Notes on Contributors
xi - Editorial Article
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Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics
1 - Articles
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A New Frontier for African Heroic Saga
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Nigeria’s Instapoetry: Cultivating Inward, Ideological Activism, Revitalizing African Orality and Re-defining the Art of Poetry
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A New Direction in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry
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History and the Call of Water in Romeo Oriogun’s ‘Nomad’
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Voice, Identity, Tradition in Postcolonial Modernism
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Personal Reflections on Niyi Osundare, Oríkì Praise Tradition, and the Journey Motif in If Only the Road Could Talk
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Lost and Gained in Translation
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Poetry and Performance
106 - Interviews
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ALT Interview with Prof. Kofi Anyidoho – Scholar, Critic, and Award-Winning Poet
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Interview with Kwame Dawes
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(Re)Echoing a Collective Trauma in Nigerian Poetry: An Interview with Kehinde Akano
139 - Tributes
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Ama Ata Aidoo: Ghana’s Literary Treasure
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I Mourn Ama Ata Aidoo, the Author of ‘A Woman must be Foolish for a Marriage to Work, though a bad Marriage Destroys the Soul’
154 - Literary Supplement
- Three Poems
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A Memorial for KAMAU BRATHWAITE: An Africa – Africa Diaspora Dialogue
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From Freedom to Free Doom
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To The Memory of Aunty Toriomo
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I Swallow Fufu
169 - Two Poems
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No Door, No Roof
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Bowls for Alms
171 - Two Poems
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No peace. The Best Teacher
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As I Watched Her Dying
174 - Short Stories
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The Mysterious Examination Paper
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The Ignored
182 - Reviews
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Salami–Agunloye (ed), Retelling History: Restaging African Women in Drama and Film
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Chika Unigwe, The Middle Daughter
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Ọmófọlábọ̀, Àjàyí Ṣóyinká and Naana Banyiwa Horne (eds.), IMMIGRANT VOICES IN SHORT STORIES: Health and Wellbeing of African Immigrants in Transnational and Transformative Encounters & Spaces
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Yaw Agawu-kakraba , The Restless Crucible
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Kofi Anyidoho, SeedTIME
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Isidore Diala, The Truce
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Irene Isoken Agunloye, Disposable Womb
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Iquo Diana-Abasi, Coming Undone as Stiches Tighten
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
November 19, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781805434757
Original publisher:
James Currey
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
224
eBook ISBN:
9781805434757
Keywords for this book
Contemporary poetry; Spoken word poetry; African epic; Pandemic poetry; Oral poetry; Ewe language; Literary tradition; Yoruba oríkì; Romeo Oriogun; Christopher Okigbo; T.S. Eliot; Kofi Anyidoho; Poetry analysis; Gabriel Okara; Oral indigenous traditions
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
Creative Commons
BY-NC-ND 4.0
