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West African Poetry

A Critical History

Language EnglishEnglish
Book Paperback
Book West African Poetry Robert Fraser
Libristo code: 02027371
Publishers Cambridge University Press, September 1986
Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on... Full description
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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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About the book

Full name West African Poetry
Author Robert Fraser
Language English
Binding Book - Paperback
Date of issue 1986
Number of pages 364
EAN 9780521312233
ISBN 052131223X
Libristo code 02027371
Publishers Cambridge University Press
Weight 540
Dimensions 152 x 228 x 27

Categories

Biography, Literature & Literary studies > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies: general > Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Place qualifiers > The Americas > Caribbean islands
Biography, Literature & Literary studies > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies: poetry & poets
Place qualifiers > Africa
Biography, Literature & Literary studies > Poetry
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