| Description |
1 online resource (363 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover ; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 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; II; III; 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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 341-345 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
West African poetry -- History and criticism.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0511554389 |
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9780511554384 |
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