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Author : Alta Jablow
language : en
Publisher: Waveland Press
Release Date : 1990-11-01
Gassire S Lute written by Alta Jablow and has been published by Waveland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-11-01 with Social Science categories.
A rousing tale of wars and heroes, Gassires Lute recounts the fall of the city-state Wagadu and tells how Gassire, warrior son of the ruling family, renounced his noble birth to become his peoples first bard. As an example of the relatively unknown oral literature of Africa, this poem is rich in historical and cultural interest. But it can be read and enjoyed simply as a beautiful and exciting story that shows clearly the universality of art and of human experience. The Waveland reprint includes an essay by the translator (The Origin of Soninke Bardic Art), which is meant to provide pertinent information for understanding and enjoying the poem.
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Author : Alta Jablow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Gassire S Lute written by Alta Jablow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Folklore categories.
African Mythology A To Z
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Author : Patricia Ann Lynch
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2010
African Mythology A To Z written by Patricia Ann Lynch and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Electronic books categories.
The African continent is home to a fascinating and strong tradition of myth, due in part to the long history of human habitation in Africa; the diversity of its geography, flora, and fauna; and the variety of its cultural beliefs. African Mythology A to Z is a readable reference to the deities, places, events, animals, beliefs, and other subjects that appear in the myths of various African peoples. For the first time, this edition features full-color photographs and illustrations.Coverage includes:
Reading Race In American Poetry
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Author : Aldon Lynn Nielsen
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2000
Reading Race In American Poetry written by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with African Americans categories.
Here, inter-racial poets and critics join together to analyze the role that race plays in the reading and writing of American poetry, and the role that poetry plays in our understanding of race.
Epic Traditions Of Africa
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Author : Stephen Belcher
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1999-10-22
Epic Traditions Of Africa written by Stephen Belcher and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10-22 with History categories.
"Belcher's volume contains a much needed and extremely well-integrated overview and discussion of a vast inter-related West African culture complex that deserves and requires the kind of original, insightful treatment it receives here." —David Conrad Epic Traditions of Africa crosses boundaries of language, distance, and time to gather material from diverse African oral epic traditions. Stephen Belcher explores the rich past and poetic force of African epics and places them in historical and social, as well as artistic contexts. Colorful narratives from Central and West African traditions are illuminated along with texts that are more widely available to Western readers—the Mande Sunjata and the Bamana Segou. Belcher also takes up questions about European influences on African epic poetry and the possibility of mutual influence through out the genre. This lively and informative volume will inspire an appreciation for the distinctive qualities of this uniquely African form of verbal art.
Paracritical Hinge
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Author : Nathaniel Mackey
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2018-03-15
Paracritical Hinge written by Nathaniel Mackey and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Paracritical Hinge is a collection of varied yet interrelated pieces highlighting Nathaniel Mackey’s multifaceted work as writer and critic. It embraces topics ranging from Walt Whitman’s interest in phrenology to the marginalization of African American experimental writing; from Kamau Brathwaite’s “calibanistic” language practices to Federico García Lorca’s flamenco aesthetic of duende and its continuing repercussions; from H. D.’s desert measure and coastal way of knowing to the altered spatial disposition of Miles Davis’s trumpet sound; from Robert Duncan’s serial poetics to diasporic syncretism; from the lyric poem’s present-day predicaments to gnosticism. Offering illuminating commentary on these and other artists including Amiri Baraka, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Wilson Harris, Jack Spicer, John Coltrane, Jay Wright, and Bob Kaufman, Paracritical Hinge also sheds light on Mackey’s own work as a poet, fiction writer, and editor.
Poetic Investigations
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Author : Paul Naylor
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1999
Poetic Investigations written by Paul Naylor and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
This text studies five contemporary writers whose radical engagements with poetic form and political content shed new light on issues of race, class and gender. In a detailed reading of three American poets - Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey and Lyn Hejinian, and two Caribbean poets, Kamau Brathwaite and M. Nourbese Philip, the book argues that these writers have produced new forms of poetry that address the holes in history that more traditional forms of poetry neglect. By refusing to limit their work to lyrical expressions of personal experience, it maintains that these writers produce poetry that explores the linguistic, historical and political conditions of contemporary culture, advancing a formally and thematically challenging critique of the ways in which women and people of colour are represented. Far from constituting a unified school of poetry however, the book argues that these five writers represent different facets of the various kinds of poetic practice taking place on the margins of contemporary culture.
Gnostic Contagion
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Author : Peter O'Leary
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2002-06-24
Gnostic Contagion written by Peter O'Leary and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Brings together the study of literature with the psychology and history of religions.
Pre Colonial Africa In Colonial African Narratives
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Author : Donald R. Wehrs
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Pre Colonial Africa In Colonial African Narratives written by Donald R. Wehrs and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
In his study of the origins of political reflection in twentieth-century African fiction, Donald Wehrs examines a neglected but important body of African texts written in colonial (English and French) and indigenous (Hausa and Yoruba) languages. He explores pioneering narrative representations of pre-colonial African history and society in seven texts: Casely Hayford's Ethiopia Unbound (1911), Alhaji Sir Abubaker Tafawa Balewa's Shaihu Umar (1934), Paul Hazoumé's Doguicimi (1938), D.O. Fagunwa's Forest of a Thousand Daemons (1938), Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954), and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958). Wehrs highlights the role of pre-colonial political economies and articulations of state power on colonial-era considerations of ethical and political issues, and is attentive to the gendered implications of texts and authorial choices. By positioning Things Fall Apart as the culmination of a tradition, rather than as its inaugural work, he also reconfigures how we think of African fiction. His book supplements recent work on the importance of indigenous contexts and discourses in situating colonial-era narratives and will inspire fresh methodological strategies for studying the continent from a multiplicity of perspectives.
The Best In Children S Books
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Author : Zena Sutherland
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1973
The Best In Children S Books written by Zena Sutherland and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Children's literature categories.
Reviews 1,400 books for children chosen as the best published during the years 1966-1972.