African Poetry Worlds in the Twenty-First Century
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
24.12.2026
Verlag
Oxford AcademicSeitenzahl
288
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-19-782786-4
This book investigates a new pan-African wave of poetry propelled by contemporary poets across the African continent and diaspora. Focusing on poems written in English during the past two decades, Nathan Suhr-Sytsma approaches the worlds of African poetry from three main angles: lifeworlds (or subjectively experienced social worlds); art worlds; and worlds made in and through the language of poems. In African Poetry Worlds in the Twenty-First Century, Suhr-Sytsma asks how poets in and from Africa confront the socio-existential dilemmas of twenty-first-century African life, how new print and digital platforms founded by African creatives position poets to address these dilemmas, and how poets consequently transform given materials into aesthetic worlds. Such poetic worldmaking renews quests for freedom amidst historic and ongoing unfreedom, not just by challenging repressive governance at the national level or stereotypical images of Africa that circulate globally, but also by reinventing customary norms of representation for family, gender, and intimacy. Poetry provides avenues for writers and readers to engage in searching socio-existential thinking, to foster new forms of sociability, and to create fresh possibilities in a language wrested from colonial condescension. This exciting book addresses the tendency of African literary and cultural studies to discount poetry, challenges scholars of poetry to do justice to living writers from the Global South, and argues that these worldmaking poets are reinventing how family, gender, and intimacy are represented.
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