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Paperback West African Poetry: A Critical History Book

ISBN: 052131223X

ISBN13: 9780521312233

West African Poetry: A Critical History

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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...

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