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Poetic imagination in Black Africa : essays on African poetry

Author: Tanure Ojaide
Publisher: Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [1996] ©1996
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Ojaide, Tanure, 1948-
Poetic imagination in Black Africa.
Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, ©1996
(OCoLC)606038779
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tanure Ojaide
ISBN: 0890898553 9780890898550
OCLC Number: 34590930
Description: xi, 148 pages ; 23 cm
Contents: Modern African literature and cultural identity --
The way we sing and tell: defining modern African poetic aesthetics --
Orality in recent West African poetry --
Musical roots: the rhythm of modern African poetry --
The changing voice of history: contemporary African poetry --
New trends in modern African poetry --
Reclaiming the initiative from the malestream: themes in African women's poetry --
Branches of the same tree: African and African-American poetry --
I want to be an oracle: my poetry and my generation --
Poetic imagination in black Africa.
Responsibility: Tanure Ojaide.

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