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Stray Truths: Selected Poems of Euphrase Kezilahabi (African Humanities and the Arts) - Tapa blanda

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9781611861822: Stray Truths: Selected Poems of Euphrase Kezilahabi (African Humanities and the Arts)
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ISBN 10: 1611861829 ISBN 13: 9781611861822
Editorial: Michigan State University Press, 2015

Sinopsis

Stray Truths is a stirring introduction to the poetry of Euphrase Kezilahabi, one of Africa’s major living authors, published here for the first time in English. Born in 1944 on Ukerewe Island in Tanzania (then the Territory of Tanganyika), Kezilahabi came of age in the newly independent nation. His poetry confronts the task of postcolonial nation building and its conundrums, and explores personal loss in parallel with nationwide disappointments. Kezilahabi sparked controversy when he published his first poetry collection in 1974, introducing free verse into Swahili. His next two volumes of poetry (published in 1988 and 2008) confirmed his status as a pioneering and modernizing literary force. Stray Truths draws on each of those landmark collections, allowing readers to encounter the myriad forms and themes significant to this poet over a span of more than three decades. Even as these poems jettison the constraints of traditional Swahili forms, their use of metaphor connects them to traditional Swahili poetics, and their representational strategies link them to indigenous African arts more broadly. To date, translations of Swahili poetry have been focused on scholarly interpretations. This literary translation, in contrast, invites a wide audience of readers to appreciate the verbal art of this seminal modernist writer.

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Annmarie Drury is Assistant Professor of English at Queens College of the City University of New York.

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Editorial
Michigan State University Press
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1611861829
ISBN 13 
9781611861822
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
142
Editor
Drury Annmarie
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