West African Poetry. A Critical History

Abstract

Introduction 1. From oral to written verse: development or depletion? 2. Ladies and gentlemen 3. The Negritude movement 4. Poetry and the university, 1957-63 5. The achievement of Christopher Okigbo 6. Continuity and adaptation in Ghanaian verse, 1952-71 7. Two Ijo poets 8. 'Psalmody of sunsets': the career of Lenrie Peters 9. The road to Idanre, 1959-67 10. The poet and war, 1966-70 11. The poetry of dissent, 1970-80 12. The return to orality A guide to availability Index.

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