Poetics Of African Poetry

THE POETICS OF MODERN AFRICAN POETRY 

Also By Isaac I. Elimimian 

Acknowledgements 

About the Author 

Preface 

                                                                                         

CHAPTER 1: The Theme of Beauty in Leopold Sedar Senghor’s Poetry

CHAPTER 2: David Diop and Africa   

CHAPTER 3: Africanness in Birago Diop’s Poetry 

CHAPTER 4: Remembering Apartheid: the Poetry of Dennis Brutus  

  

CHAPTER 5: Gabriel Okara as a Poet

CHAPTER 6: Structure and Meaning in J.P. Clark- Bekederemo’s Poetry

CHAPTER 7: The Dialectics of Okot p’ Bitek’s Poetry

CHAPTER 8: Myth and Symbol in Kofi Awoonor’s Poetry       

CHAPTER 9: Language, Style, and Meaning in Wole Soyinka’s Poetry     

CHAPTER 10: Kwesi Brew’s Lyricism     

CHAPTER 11: Solomon Unoh as a Public Poet

CHAPTER 12: Love, Religion, Art, and Traditionalism in Christopher Okigbo’s Poetic art

CHAPTER 13: Oswald Mtshali as a Poet

CHAPTER 14: Theme and Style in Lenrie Peters’ Poetry    

CHAPTER 15: Agostinho Neto, Angola, and Africa  

CHAPTER 16: Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo’s Poetic Art

CHAPTER 17: Taban lo Liyong’s Lyricism    

CHAPTER 18: Mazisi Kunene and the South African Experience   

CHAPTER 19: Tchicaya U. Tam’si as a Poet

CHAPTER 20: Gladys Casely-Hayford’s Poetic Sensibility

CHAPTER 21: “The Muses Promise to Assist My Pen:” Phillis Wheatley

CHAPTER 22:   Langston Hughes’s Aesthetic Debt to Africa             

 CHAPTER 23: The Theme of Corruption in African Poetry             

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