Palmer, Eustace & Porter, Abioseh Michael (Eds.)
This volume is the first comprehensive analysis and assessment of a national literature that has been growing in recent years. It provides, particularly in the introduction, insightful information about the historical and cultural background to that literature and the traditions on which contemporary writers have built. The section on poetry contains essays on two of the most challenging and obscure African poets, Lemuel Johnson and Syl Cheney-Coker, discussing many of the poems of these two writers in great detail and shedding light on their meaning, while placing them in the context of Sierra Leone's history and development. Then there is a section on drama that showcases the works of Sierra Leone’s two leading published dramatists, Raymond Sarif Easmon and Yulisa Amadu Maddy, re-establishing the reputation of Easmon who, in the past, had been readily dismissed, and comparing and contrasting the nature of his work with that of Maddy.
2008 9781592216451 Paperback
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