West African Poetry: A Critical History

by Robert Fraser and Robert Fraser

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052131223X
• ISBN13: 9780521312233
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"