{"product_id":"west-african-poetry-a-critical-history-paperback-9780521312233","title":"West African Poetry; A Critical History (Paperback) 9780521312233","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWest African Poetry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Critical History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert Fraser (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521312233, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 4 September 1986\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e364 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.54 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePrevious 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 Fraser's account of two centuries of West African verse examines its subjugation to a succession of international styles: from the heroic couplet to the austerity of experimental Modernism. Successive chapters take us through the Négritude movement and the emergence of anglophone free verse in the 1950s to the rediscovery in recent years of the neglected springs of orality, which is the subject of the concluding chapter.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. From oral to written verse: development or depletion?\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ladies and gentlemen\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Négritude movement\u003cbr\u003e 4. Poetry and the university, 1957–63\u003cbr\u003e 5. The achievement of Christopher Okigbo\u003cbr\u003e 6. Continuity and adaptation in Ghanaian verse, 1952–71\u003cbr\u003e 7. Two Ijo poets\u003cbr\u003e 8. 'Psalmody of sunsets': the career of Lenrie Peters\u003cbr\u003e 9. The road to Idanre, 1959–67\u003cbr\u003e 10. The poet and war, 1966–70\u003cbr\u003e 11. The poetry of dissent, 1970–80\u003cbr\u003e 12. The return to orality\u003cbr\u003e A guide to availability\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20poetry%20\u0026amp;%20poets%20%5BDSC%5D%22\"\u003eDSC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004694024472,"sku":"9780521312233","price":34.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521312233_89fa7c6d-ea36-4786-899b-d889aabaadc4.gif?v=1691375045","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/west-african-poetry-a-critical-history-paperback-9780521312233","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}