Alt 42: Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-84701-391-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 42, 242 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: African Literature Today

Examines the state of African poetry today, the continuing influence of Africa's pioneer poets, today's new generation of poets, and their work in written poetry and in the spoken word, continuing oral indigenous traditions.

Almost half a century after ALT 6 and thirty-three years after ALT 16, what is the state of poetry and poetics in Africa? This volume of ALT highlights major developments and continuities in the practice of the art of poetry in the continent. Contributions analyse new frontiers in the traditional African epic and the Yoruba oríkì genre and innovations in form and theme, such as 'spoken word poetry' shared on digital media and pandemic poetry in the wake of COVID-19. They compare and contrast the work of Romeo Oriogun, Christopher Okigbo, and Gabriel Okara and of T.S. Eliot and Kofi Anyidoho. Other essays examine the complexities of translation from Ewe into English and the development of oral African poetry, underscoring its dynamism and the centrality of performance. The volume also includes interviews with poets Kofi Anyidoho, Kwame Dawes, and Kehinde Akano and tributes to Ama Ata Aidoo. Altogether, it highlights the richness and vibrancy of contemporary praxis and points to future directions in the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emenyonu, Ernest N

Weitere Mitwirkende

Emenyonu, Ernest N

Abasi, Iquo Diana

Adjei, Mawuli

Akinpelu, Oluwafumilayo

Alabi, Adetayo

Anyidoho, Kofi

Aremu, Adewuyi

(Sessay), Kadija George

Mukoro, Edafe

Okuyade, Ogaga

Opicho, Alexander

Roy, Paramita Routh

Sackeyfio, Rose A

Vladic Jovanov, Milena

Masamaka, Jerome

Phiri, Matrida

Adesola, Ademola

Oluwafisayo, Rachel

Yong, Marinus

Okoye, Ifeoma

Alabi, Victor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

EDITORIAL ARTICLE
Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics - ERNEST EMENYONU

ARTICLES
A New Frontier for African Heroic Saga: The Sahara Testaments by Tade Ipadeola - KOFI ANYIDOHO
Nigeria's Insta Poetry: Cultivating Inward, Ideological Activism, Revitalizing African Orality and Re-defining the Art of Poetry - OLUWAFUMILAYO AKINPELU
A New Direction in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry: The Pandemic Poems of Tanure Ojaide and Kola Eke - OGAGA OKUYADE & EDAFE MUKORO
History and the Call of Water in Romeo Oriogun's 'Nomad' - IQUO DIANA ABASI
Voice, Identity, Tradition in Postcolonial Modernism: T.S. Eliot and Kofi Anyidoho from the Perspectives of Posthumanism and Post-Deconstruction - MILENA VLADIC JOVANOV
Personal Reflections on Niyi Osundare, Oríkì Praise Tradition, and the Journey Motif in: If Only the Road Could Talk - ADETAYO ALABI
Lost and Gained in Translation: Navigating the Contours of Kofi Anyidoho's Bilingual Poetry - MAWULI ADJEI
Poetry and Performance: The Spoken Word Poetry as a Reincarnation of African Oral literary Tradition - PARAMITA ROUTH ROY

INTERVIEWS
ALT Interview with Prof. Kofi Anyidoho - Scholar, Critic, & Award-winning Poet - ERNEST EMENYONU, CHIJI AKOMA, AKACHI EZEIGBO, OBI NWAKANMA, ROSE SACKEYFIO, CHINYERE EZEKWESILI, AND IQUO DIANA ABASI
Interview With Kwame Dawes - KADIJA GEORGE
(Re)echoing a Collective Trauma in Nigerian Poetry: An Interview with Kehinde Akano - ADEWUYI AREMU

TRIBUTES
Ama Ata Aidoo: Ghana's Literary Treasure: A Tribute to Ama Ata Aidoo (March 23, 1940 - May 31, 2023) - ROSE A. SACKEYFIO
I Mourn Ama Ata Aidoo, the Author of 'A Woman must be Foolish for a Marriage to Work, though a bad Marriage Destroys the Soul'. A Tribute to Ama Ata Aidoo (March 23, 1940 - May 31, 2023) - ALEXANDER OPICHO

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
THREE POEMS
'A Memorial for KAMAU BRATHWAITE An Africa - AfricaDiaspora Dialogue', 'For Willie Keorapetse Kgositsile', 'A Song for

Über Autor(innen)

Roy, Paramita Routh
Paramita Routh Roy has an MA in English Literature from the University of Calcutta, India. Her research interests include African Literature with special emphasis on Women's Writings, Black Feminism, Masculinity Studies, Gender Studies and Postcolonialism.

Emenyonu, Ernest N
Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012).

Emenyonu, Ernest N
Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012).