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by: Emmanuel E. Egar
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.509
EAN: 9780761831501
ISBN: 0761831509
Label: University Press of America
Manufacturer: University Press of America
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 74
Publication Date: April 28, 2005
Publisher: University Press of America
Sales Rank: 2529929
Studio: University Press of America
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Product Description:
In times of political or social uncertainties the poet usually takes on the mantle of prophet, priest, or seer. He becomes not just the custodian of justice, but also the symbolic voice of the unified society. It is these unique and peculiar roles that Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), Claude McKay (USA), and Jean Toomer (USA) used poetry as a medium to enunciate their anxieties, frustrations, doubts, hopes, and desires about the repressive systems in their respective countries.
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