Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index.
Contents:
The politics of African literature : production, publishing, and reception. Homecoming : African literature and human development -- Defining Niger Delta literature : preliminary perspective on an emerging literature -- After the Nobel Prize : Wole Soyinka's poetic output -- Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart in world literature -- An unusual growth : the development of Tijan M. Sallah's poetry -- An insider testimony : Odia Ofeimun and his generation of Nigerian poets -- Reviving modern African poetry : an argument -- The perils of a culture-less African literature in the age of globalization -- The imperative of experience in poetry : an African perspective -- Indigenous knowledge and its expression in the folklore of Africa -- Policy studies, activist literature, and pitching for the masses in Nigeria -- Traditional Izon court and modern poetry : Christian Otobotekere's contribution -- Personally speaking : The beauty I have seen -- Revisiting an African oral poetic performance : Udje today -- Performance, the new African poetry, and my poetry : a commentary -- Two tributes : Chinua Achebe and Kofi Awoonor -- The politics of African literature : production, publishing, and reception.
Summary:
"Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflects the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporary African literature captures the African experience in history and politics in a multiplicity of ways. Politics itself has come to intersect and impact most, if not all, aspects of African reality. This relationship of literature with African people's lives and conditions forms the setting of this study"--Back cover.
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