Myth and History in the Poetry of Osundare

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dc.contributor.authorAnyokwu, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-14T15:39:33Z
dc.date.available2016-01-14T15:39:33Z
dc.date.issued2009-12
dc.description.abstractIn his article "Myth and History in the Poetry of Osundare" Christopher Anyokwu examines the interrelation of myth and history from an African perspective. Anyokwu analyzes the poetry of one of Africa's most prolific and decorated contemporary poets, Niyi Osundare. Osundare is a third-generation Nigerian poet whose work is based on Yoruba oral tradition and informed by Marxist ideology. Osundare's poetry demonstrates the so-called " return-to-roots" neo-traditionalist ethos in modern African writing. Osundare's attitude to myth, ritual, and other African animist categories is intriguingly complex, ambivalent, and giving rise to charges of ideological irresolution and culturo-epistemic bifurcation. As a champion of poetry of social statement and revolutionary change, Osundare places history on a high pedestal in the overall message o f his art. Anyokwu analyses the different points of interaction and divergence between myth and history in Osundare's poetry arguing its conjunctural significance in the growing world of African letters.en_US
dc.identifier.citationA n y o k w u , C hr i s t op he r . " M y th a nd H i s t or y in the P oe tr y of O s und a r e . " CL C W e b: Co m p a r a t i v e L it er a t u r e a n d C u l t u r e 11.4 (2009): < h tt p://d x . do i . or g/10.7771/1481-4374.1555 >en_US
dc.identifier.issn1481-4374
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.unilag.edu.ng:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/481
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectPoetryen_US
dc.subjectMythen_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.titleMyth and History in the Poetry of Osundareen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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