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English Language and Literature

1996

Poetry Written in English

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'The Big Canvass": An Interview With Mazisi Kunene, Chukwuma Azuonye Jan 1996

'The Big Canvass": An Interview With Mazisi Kunene, Chukwuma Azuonye

Africana Studies Faculty Publication Series

In the present interview, recorded in his office, in July,1996, during an NEH Summer-long Seminar on the Literature and Culture of the New South Africa in which I participated, Kunene reflects on the challenges of the New South Africa and offers some illuminating insights into the impetus behind his choice of the epic as a mode of communication, his interest in the African world view and cosmology, the variety of his writing and interests beyond the epics for which he was best known, and his vision of the commonalty of all African cultures. In this, as in his creative writings, …


Eagle On Iroko: Selected Papers From The Chinua Achebe International Symposium, 1990, Edith Ihekweazu, Chukwuma Azuonye Dec 1995

Eagle On Iroko: Selected Papers From The Chinua Achebe International Symposium, 1990, Edith Ihekweazu, Chukwuma Azuonye

Chukwuma Azuonye

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'The Big Canvass": An Interview With Mazisi Kunene, Chukwuma Azuonye Dec 1995

'The Big Canvass": An Interview With Mazisi Kunene, Chukwuma Azuonye

Chukwuma Azuonye

In the present interview, recorded in his office, in July,1996, during an NEH Summer-long Seminar on the Literature and Culture of the New South Africa in which I participated, Kunene reflects on the challenges of the New South Africa and offers some illuminating insights into the impetus behind his choice of the epic as a mode of communication, his interest in the African world view and cosmology, the variety of his writing and interests beyond the epics for which he was best known, and his vision of the commonalty of all African cultures. In this, as in his creative writings, …