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Author: Léopold Sédar Senghor Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 9780813918327 Category : Fiction Languages : es Pages : 598
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Leopold Sedar Senghor was not only president of the Republic of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, he is also Africa's most famous poet. A cofounder of the Negritude cultural movement, he is recognized as one of the most significant figures in African literature. This bilingual edition of Senghor's complete poems made his work available for the first time to English-speaking audiences. His poetry, alive with sensual imagery, contrasts the lushness and wonder of Africa's past with the alienation and loss associated with assimilation into European culture. Translator Melvin Dixon places Senghor's writing in historical persepctive by relating it to both his political involvement and his intellectual development.
Author: Léopold Sédar Senghor Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 9780813918327 Category : Fiction Languages : es Pages : 598
Book Description
Leopold Sedar Senghor was not only president of the Republic of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, he is also Africa's most famous poet. A cofounder of the Negritude cultural movement, he is recognized as one of the most significant figures in African literature. This bilingual edition of Senghor's complete poems made his work available for the first time to English-speaking audiences. His poetry, alive with sensual imagery, contrasts the lushness and wonder of Africa's past with the alienation and loss associated with assimilation into European culture. Translator Melvin Dixon places Senghor's writing in historical persepctive by relating it to both his political involvement and his intellectual development.
Author: Sylvia Washington Ba Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400867134 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 317
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Negritude has been defined by Léopold Sédar Senghor as "the sum of the cultural values of the black world as they are expressed in the life, the institutions, and the works of black men." Sylvia Washington Bâ analyzes Senghor's poetry to show how the concept of negritude infuses it at every level. A biographical sketch describes his childhood in Senegal, his distinguished academic career in France, and his election as President of Senegal. Themes of alienation and exile pervade Senghor's poetry, but it was by the opposition of his sensitivity and values to those of Europe that he was able to formulate his credo. Its key theme, and the supreme value of black African civilization, is the concept of life forces, which are not attributes or accidents of being, but the very essence of being. Life is an essentially dynamic mode of being for the black African, and it has been Senghor's achievement to communicate African intensity and vitality through his use of the nuances, subtleties, and sonorities of the French language. In the final chapter Sylvia Washington Bâ discusses the future of Senghor's belief that the black man's culture should be recognized as valid not simply as a matter of human justice, but because the values of negritude could be instrumental in the reintegration of positive values into western civilization and the reorientation of contemporary man toward life and love. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: J. D. McClatchy Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0679741151 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 690
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This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterpieces from four continents and more than two dozen languages in translations by such distinguished poets as Elizabeth Bishop, W.S. Merwin, Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney. Among the countries and writers represented are: Bangladesh--Taslima Nasrin Chile--Pablo Neruda China--Bei Dao, Shu Ting El Salvador--Claribel Alegria France--Yves Bonnefoy Greece--Odysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos India--A.K. Ramanujan Israel--Yehuda Amichai Japan--Shuntaro Tanikawa Mexico--Octavio Paz Nicaragua--Ernesto Cardenal Nigeria--Wole Soyinka Norway--Tomas Transtromer Palestine--Mahmoud Darwish Poland--Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz Russia--Joseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko Senegal--Leopold Sedar Senghor South Africa--Breyten Breytenbach St. Lucia, West Indies--Derek Walcott
Author: Lennart Bruce Publisher: ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : sv Pages : 228
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From Translation Review (Univ. of Texas, Dallas): ¿Graced by a number of virtues that recommend it to anyone interested in poetry, women¿s studies, Scandinavian literature, or translation.¿
Author: Aim C Saire Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520907614 Category : Non-Classifiable Languages : en Pages : 436
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This edition, containing an extensive introduction, notes, the French original, and a new translation of Césaire's poetry--the complex and challenging later works as well as the famous Notebook--will remain the definitive Césaire in English.
Author: Leo Frobenius Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 286
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Foreword / by Léopold Sédar Senghor -- The "Atlas Africanus"--Discussion of the method of cultural history -- On the morphological method of studying cultures -- The nature of culture -- Reflections on African art -- Rock art of the Saharan atlas -- Rock art of the Fezzan -- Rock art of South Africa -- African hunters: the Mahalbi culture -- African hunters: bushmen and hunting spirits -- The civilization of the Kabyls -- Tales from the Sudan -- The religion of the Yoruba -- Zimbabwe and the Wahungwe civilization -- Editor's postscript -- Main works of Leo Frobenius -- Works on Leo Frobenius
Author: Aimé Césaire Publisher: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 0819577510 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 991
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The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire gathers all of Cesaire's celebrated verse into one bilingual edition. The French portion is comprised of newly established first editions of Césaire's poetic ouvre made available in French in 2014 under the title Poésie, Théâtre, Essais et Discours, edited by A. J. Arnold and an international team of specialists. To prepare the English translations, the translators started afresh from this French edition. Included here are translations of first editions of the poet's early work, prior to political interventions in the texts after 1955, revealing a new understanding of Cesaire's aesthetic and political trajectory. A truly comprehensive picture of Cesaire's poetry and poetics is made possible thanks to a thorough set of notes covering variants, historical and cultural references, and recurring figures and structures, a scholarly introduction and a glossary. This book provides a new cornerstone for readers and scholars in 20th century poetry, African diasporic literature, and postcolonial studies.
Author: Léopold Sédar Senghor
Author: Léopold Sédar Senghor
Author: Sylvia Washington Ba
Author: Léopold Sédar Senghor
Author: J. D. McClatchy
Author: Gerald Moore
Author: Lennart Bruce
Author: Léopold Sédar Senghor
Author: Aim C Saire
Author: Leo Frobenius
Author: Aimé Césaire