A Rain of Words: A Bilingual Anthology of Women's Poetry in Francophone Africa
A Rain of Words: A Bilingual Anthology of Women's Poetry in Francophone Africa (Caribbean and African Literature) Irène Assiba d'Almeida (Editor)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813927668
DDC: 896
Edition: Paperback; 2008-11-21
Summary:
Although the past two decades have seen a wide recognition of the
notable fiction written in French by African women, little attention
has been given to their equally significant poetry. A Rain of Words
is the first comprehensive attempt to survey the poetic production of
these women, collecting work by forty-seven poets from a dozen
francophone African countries. Some are established writers; others
are only beginning to publish their work. Almost none of the poems
here have been published outside of Africa or Europe or been
previously translated into English. The poems are accompanied by
brief biographies of the poets, a glossary, and an extensive
bibliography. Supplementing these are a critical introductory essay
by Irène Assiba d'Almeida that places women's poetry in the context
of recent African history, characterizes its thematic and aesthetic
features, and traces the process by which the anthology was compiled
and edited, and an essay by Janis A. Mayes discussing language
politics, the cultural contexts within which the poetry emerges, and
literary translation strategies.This landmark bilingual
collection--the result of ten years of research, collection, editing,
and translation--offers readers of English and French entry into a
flourishing and essential genre of contemporary African literature.
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