Dennis Brutus' Poetics of Revolt

Eunice Ngongkum (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

128 Seiten

2017 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-0386-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is a refreshing and innovative reading of Dennis Brutus’ poetry, underlining its concern for suffering humanity in the apartheid context and beyond. Through a cogent critical analysis of the poetry from a multifaceted perspective, the work brings to the fore the different motifs, strategies and artistry with which Brutus succeeds in initiating revolt through art. It explains how the poet’s engagement with the poetics of place, apartheid laws, police brutality, questions of travel and language foregrounds these as tropes or metaphors for reinforcing the despicable apartheid image and influencing popular revolt against the system.

Autor

Eunice Ngongkum holds a PhD in African Literature from the University of Yaounde1, Cameroon, where she presently teaches in the Department of African Literature and Civilisations. Her research interests are in the domains of postcolonial African literature, African diaspora literature, cultural studies, literary theory and criticism. She is the author of Anglophone Cameroon Poetry in the Environmental Matrix (2017).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.01.2018
• Verlagsort: Newcastle upon Tyne
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 148 x 212 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-5275-0386-0 / 1527503860
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5275-0386-1 / 9781527503861
• Zustand: Neuware