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The word behind bars and the paradox of exile
- Title
- The word behind bars and the paradox of exile / edited by Kofi Anyidoho ; with a foreword by Jane I. Guyer.
- Publication
- Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 1997.
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- Additional Authors
- Anyidoho, Kofi.
- Description
- x, 248 pages; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Exiles' writings, African (English)
- Prisoners' writings, African (English)
- Prisons in literature > Congresses
- African literature (English) > History and criticism > Congresses
- Africa > Literary collections
- Exiles' writings, African (English) > History and criticism > Congresses
- Political prisoners > Africa > Intellectual life > Congresses
- Prisoners in literature > Congresses
- Political prisoners > Literary collections
- Prisoners' writings, African (English) > History and criticism > Congresses
- Prisons > Literary collections
- Exiles in literature > Congresses
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Foreword / Jane I. Guyer -- Introduction: Prison as Exile/Exile as Prison: Circumstance, Metaphor, and a Paradox of Modern African Literatures / Kofi Anyidoho -- Of Orality and Memory in Prison and Exile (A Personal Note on How to Survive the Chaos of Incarceration) / Jack Mapanje -- Containing Cockroaches (Memories of Incarceration Reconstructed in Exile) / Jack Mapanje -- Exile and Creativity: A Prolonged Writer's Block / Micere Githae Mugo -- Poems for Liberation of the Land / Micere Githae Mugo -- The Locus and Logos of Exile / Aliko Songolo -- Conditions in the Third World: A Playwright's Soliloquy on His Experiences / Ola Rotimi -- How Not to Rule the Third World: A Parable Playlet / Ola Rotimi -- Cartoons in Cameroon: Anger and Political Derision under Monocracy / Celestin Monga -- Earth and Sound: The Place of Poetry / M. Nourbese Philip -- Whose Idea Was It Anyway? / M. Nourbese Philip -- Preface to Testimonies of Exile: On Territories, Tied Tongues, and Translations / Abena P. A. Busia -- On Oppression, Prison, and Exile - Poems / Kofi Anyidoho -- Through the Bars: The Prison Experience in Poetry / Dennis Brutus -- On Prison and Exile - Poems / Dennis Brutus -- A Song of Home, A Song of Exile / Keorapetse Kgositsile.
- ISBN
- 0810113929 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0810113937 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97016003
- OCLC
- 36993757
- ocm36993757
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries