Research Catalog
Gravitas: Poetic Consciencism for Cameroon
- Title
- Gravitas: Poetic Consciencism for Cameroon [electronic resource] / Peter Wuteh Vakunta.
- Author
- Vakunta, Peter W.
- Publication
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
- [Oxford, England] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective
- Mankon, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, [2016]
Details
- Additional Authors
- Project Muse.
- Description
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (viii, 49 pages))
- Summary
- Gravitas: Poetic Consciencism for Cameroon is the poet's requiem for the geographical expression code-named Cameroon. Vakunta speaks with the audacity of a daredevil and the certitude of a seer. This long poem has the twin virtues of gravity and clarity of purpose. The poet eschews the banality and sophistry characteristic of poetry for poetry's sake. Passion, sarcasm, and incisive irony are the hallmarks of this long didactic poem. The poet subscribes to Salman Rushdie's pronouncement that a poet's duty is to say the unutterable, name the unnamable, unmask masquerading miscreants and shame the scum of society. In this poem, music serves as a clarion call for examination of conscience, and alcohol ceases to serve as opium of the people. A bittersweet potion, this book echoes the defiant voice of a son-of-the-soil at odds with his native land gone topsy-turvy.
- Uniform Title
- Gravitas: Poetic Consciencism for Cameroon (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Gravitas: Poetic Consciencism for Cameroon (Online)
- Subject
- Cameroon > Poetry
- Note
- Poem.
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- OCLC
- ssj0001754793
- Author
- Vakunta, Peter W.
- Title
- Gravitas: Poetic Consciencism for Cameroon [electronic resource] / Peter Wuteh Vakunta.
- Imprint
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)[Oxford, England] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)Mankon, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, [2016] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Access
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Project Muse.
- Other Form:
- Print version: 9789956764846