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Comparative Studies in African Dirge Poetry is an important contribution to research in African literature by Nigerian scholar GMT Emezue. Emezue sets out to portray the role and function of African dirge. Moving from the general (African milieu) to the specific (Igbo heritage) she explores written and oral modes of poetic expressions. Emezue also posits a theory of the African dirge with features comparatively distinctive from the formalised structures of western art. GMT Emezue's interest in traditional African dirge songs and modern poetry is borne from her conviction that nowhere in the corpus of oral poetry have there been more works of heightened creativity than the dirge forms.
This second volume in the Critical Approached series is an exposition of the craft of Nigerian writer, theatre director, poet, dramatist and editor, Onuora Ossie Enekwe. The professor of dramatic literature spent thirty years developing and advancing the drama and graduate curriculum of the University Nsukka and had in addition been editor of Okike. An African Journal of New Writing which was founded by Chinua Achebe.
New Voices is an attempt to record some of the new generation of Nigerian poets. A move that begun in the early 90's when the call for poems appeared in some Nigerian dailies. This volume includes largely unpublished works collected over the period 1998-2008. The anthology features some wholly new and other popular Nigerian voices such as Enekwe, Ce, Raji, Onwudinjo, Adeoti, Chylekezi, Adegoke, Bassey and Ushie.
NEW BLACK AND AFRICAN WRITING Vol. 2 is our concluding edition of a series that has featured many critical entries and reviews on canonical African fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction. This second edition explores intricacies of relationships and associations, the recurrent tropes for the interpretation and understanding of historical connections, and the shaping of thought brought into fictional and cultural renditions that are evolving and continually reassessed although around the periphery of older canons. The quest for a meaningful heuristic for approaching contemporary arts is almost totally redefined by the contributions of eminent scholars of our time whose balancing and correspondence create room for complementarity of values and toward cultural understanding and value appreciation in contemporary society.
It is most apparent that this critical volume on new writings is not just intended to encapsulate the proud zest of Pan African idealism and black racial legacy: Its anchor on individual concerns within an all-inclusivist continental heritage is rather the core of its historical relevance. --Book Jacket.
The 2006 Journal of New Poetry contains scholarly essay contributions and new poetic expressions from Africa, America, and the Caribbean islands. The editors at IRCALC have by this journal issue brought interesting searchlights on African and African American poetry the intention being to broaden the perception of history and continuity apparent even from a glance of African written poetry but not to neglect its entire historical (oral-written) context which scholars and researchers have found to be truly useful.
On Savitri, epic poetry by Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950.
This landmark volume brings together a very rich harvest of forty critical essays on Cameroon literature by Cameroon literary scholars. The book is the result of the Second Conference on Cameroon Literature which took place at the University of Buea in 1994. The Buea conference was motivated by a determination to look at Cameroon literature straight into its face and criticize it using literary criteria of the strictest kind. Gone were the times when the criticism was complacent because it was believed that a nascent literature could easily be stifled by application of rather strict cannons of literary criticism. Both writers and critics had a lot to say. Subjects dealt with ranged from general topics on literature, survival and national identity, through specialized articles on prose, poetry, drama, translation, language, folklore, childrens literature, Journalism and politics. It is the hope of the volume editors that the publication of these papers will instigate the kind of actions that were recommended and that the prolific nature of Cameroon literature will equally give rise to a prolific and robust criticism.