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A Note On Okonkwo's Suicide, Robert Fraser
A Note On Okonkwo's Suicide, Robert Fraser
Kunapipi
There seems to be no general critical agreement as to the reason for the suicide of Okonkwo, the protagonist of Chinua Achebe's' novel Things Fall Apart. Gerald Moore in his Seven African Writers simply records the incident, his only clue as to its interpretation being his earlier statement that 'Okonkwo cannot reconcile himself to the paralysis of will which he senses around him'. In Arthur Ravenscroft's monograph the emphasis is slightly different: 'he hangs himself, not to avoid arrest but out of despair for the future of his people'. G. D. Killam in his more extended study of the writer …
A Connection Of Images: The Structure Of Symbols In The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Terry Goldie
A Connection Of Images: The Structure Of Symbols In The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Terry Goldie
Kunapipi
Ayi Kwei Armah's first novel, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, has presented problems for most readers. There has been a general admission that it is a work which deserves high praise but most have been decidedly uncomfortable with Armah's obsession with filth and decay. Yet it is precisely this obsession which shows Armah's technical abilities and which helps to define the full meaning of the novel.
Interview With Okot P'Bitek, Okot P'Bitek
Interview With Okot P'Bitek, Okot P'Bitek
Kunapipi
Okot p'Bitek visited Aarhus University during the autumn of 1977. During that term Kirsten Holst Petersen was teaching a class on East African Literature. Okot p'Bitek agreed to meet the class and answer the following questions that had been prepared by the students.
Nigerian Cloth Paintings, Michael Ayodele
Nigerian Cloth Paintings, Michael Ayodele
Kunapipi
Michael Ayodele is a Yoruba artist who studied under Twins Seven Seven and who now lives in Zaria in Northern Nigeria. His drawings are always of traditional Yoruba themes and his media is Indian ink on· white cotton.
Egbe's Sworn Enemy: Soyinka's Popular Sport, Bernth Lindfors
Egbe's Sworn Enemy: Soyinka's Popular Sport, Bernth Lindfors
Kunapipi
Upon returning to the University of lbadan in 1960 after more than five years of study and work in England, Wole Soyinka wrote a brief essay on 'The Future of West African Writing' for a young campus publication called The Horn. 1 In it he praised Chinua Achebe for displaying an 'unquestioning acceptance' of West African subject matter in his novel Things Fall Apart. Soyinka believed that this 'seemingly indifferent acceptance' of one's own cultural milieu marked 'the turning point in our literary development', for it departed radically from the attitudes of earlier writers who had distorted African reality.
Loss And Frustration: An Analysis Of A. K. Armah's Fragments, Kirsten Holst Petersen
Loss And Frustration: An Analysis Of A. K. Armah's Fragments, Kirsten Holst Petersen
Kunapipi
On a first reading Fragments may appear confusing because of the broken time sequence, but looked at more closely this feature gives the clue to the significance of the main metaphor of the book and thus to its meaning.
Boeotian And Loyolan Art, Mark Oconnor
Boeotian And Loyolan Art, Mark Oconnor
Kunapipi
In sorting through the mass of English-language poetry poured out by the printing-presses of the world, one's problem is not so much to tell good from bad as to distinguish, out of the great press of the merely talented, that tiny handful of poets (probably not more than half a dozen in a generation) who have something major and distinctive to say. Among observers of Australian poetry suspicion has been hardening over the last five years that Les A. Murray may be such a one.
Randolph Stow In Scandinavia, Vibeke Stenderup
Randolph Stow In Scandinavia, Vibeke Stenderup
Kunapipi
The State and University Library of Aarhus recently received a request for Scandinavian research material on the Western Australian poet and novelist Randolph Stow. Although the result was rather meagre, I believe it to be of interest to readers of Kunapipi
The Arrival At The Homestead A Mind-Film, Randolph Stow
The Arrival At The Homestead A Mind-Film, Randolph Stow
Kunapipi
After the jolt at the dry creek bed, and the turning of the red road through the straggling myall, part of the homestead came in sight. And the traveller knew it. Or perhaps did not quite know it, since it was any homestead at all in that part of the country, such as he could have drawn from memory or built like Meccano in his mind. Yet something made him slow down the car, something at last made him pull up and wait, in the soft red dust by the rotting gate through which he could see down the beaten …
Poems, Mark Oconnor, Randolph Stow, Felix Mathali, Jack Mapanje, Nissim Ezekiel
Poems, Mark Oconnor, Randolph Stow, Felix Mathali, Jack Mapanje, Nissim Ezekiel
Kunapipi
The Rainbow Serpent
Three Maltese Poems
Playing With My Coronet
Alof De Vignacourt Sits for HIs Portrait
Simplicities of Summer
Write ...
Kabula Curio-Shop
Requiem
From Nudes: A Sequence of 14 Free-verse Sonnets
Denmark In The Indian Ocean, 1616-1845 An Introduction, Randolph Stow
Denmark In The Indian Ocean, 1616-1845 An Introduction, Randolph Stow
Kunapipi
The Danish East Indian Company grew out of the ambitions of Christian IV, who in 1616 found himself with a new chancellor, Friis-Kragerup, less restraining than his predecessor. But if the ambition was Christian's, the initiative came from two Dutchmen, Jan de Willum and Herman Rosenkrantz, who first put forward the idea in 1615 and won a circle of Copenhagen merchants to their side. In an open letter of March 17, 1616, King Christian gave permission for Danish subjects to establish an East Indian Company in Copenhagen in order to engage in trade with the East Indies, China and Japan.
Kunapipi 1(1) 1979, Contents, Editorial, Contributors, Anna Rutherford
Kunapipi 1(1) 1979, Contents, Editorial, Contributors, Anna Rutherford
Kunapipi
Kunapipi 1(1) 1979, Contents, Editorial, Contributors
Kunapipi Volume 5 Number 2 1983
Kunapipi Volume 5 Number 1 1983
Kunapipi Volume 4 Number 2 1982
Kunapipi Volume 4 Number 1 1982
Kunapipi Volume 3 Number 2 1981
Kunapipi Volume 3 Number 1 1981
Kunapipi Volume 2 Number 2 1980
Kunapipi Volume 2 Number 1 1980