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When my brothers come home : poems from central and southern Africa
- Title
- When my brothers come home : poems from central and southern Africa / edited by Frank Mkalawile Chipasula.
- Publication
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press ; Scranton, Pa. : Distributed by Harper & Row, 1985.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Chipasula, Frank Mkalawile.
- Description
- xv, 278 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The volume contains poems by fiftyone poets among them Mvula Ya Nangolo's (the Namibian poet and longstanding member of SWAPO) drawn from his earlier work: From Exile (1976) and one Liberation Movement, FRELIMO (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique. The poems are drawn from Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Themes dealt with include anticolonial struggles, racism, exploitation, and the postcolonial experience. As the editor says in the introduction, this collection of poems written between 1945 and 1982 deliberately emphasizes social commitment. (UNIN).
- Series Statement
- Wesleyan poetry
- Uniform Title
- Wesleyan poetry
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Poetry
- poetry.
- Poésie.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Angola -- Botswana -- Malawi -- Mozambique -- Frelimo -- South Africa -- Zambia -- Zimbabwe.
- ISBN
- 0819550922
- 9780819550927
- 0819560898
- 9780819560896
- LCCN
- 83021832
- OCLC
- ocm10072530
- 10072530
- SCSB-607202
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library