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Tchicaya U Tam’si’s Lyricism
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Chapter 19

Tchicaya U Tam’si’s Lyricism

Tchicaya U Tam’si, who hails from Mpili in the People’s Republic of the Congo, was born in 1931 and died in 1988. Educated in both the People’s Republic of the Congo and in France under Negritude and Surrealist influences, he is a poet, novelist, and journalist. Many of his poetic works, including Bad Blood (1955), Epitome (1962), The Belly (1964), Selected Poems (1970), and The Inner Failure (1977) confirm his status as a major francophone poet.

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