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From: The Gong and the Flute: African Literary Development and Celebration[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Azuonye offers a detailed analysis of Path of Thunder in order to highlight Okigbo's transition from "the mythopoeic symbolism" of his early works to "a largely unfulfilled...
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From: Black American Literature Forum[In the following excerpt, Ojaide examines African and Western influences in Soyinka's poetry.] A survey of Wole Soyinka's influences reveals the admixture of indigenous and foreign qualities in the poems. These...
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From: African Literature Today[(essay date 1973) In the excerpt below, Izevbaye delineates the interplay of sources Okigbo employs in Heavensgate and Limits.] The year 1971 saw the publication by Heinemann Educational Books of Labyrinths with Path...
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From: Ariel[(essay date October 1993 ) In the following essay, Kanaganayakam compares and contrasts Achebe's narrative technique in Anthills of the Savannah to that of his earlier works.] Twenty-one years after the publication of...
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From: Research in African Literatures[(essay date spring 1978) In the following essay, Heywood undertakes a detailed survey of meaning in Okigbo's poetry, attempting to rectify errors or misunderstandings in the work of earlier critics.] Any discussion of...
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From: African Literature Today[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Acholonu argues that Okigbo achieves "the artistic ideal of purity" and the "perfect identification of matter with form" through the musicality of his language.] For...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)In the introduction to Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo wrote: Although these poems were written and published separately, they are, in fact, organically related. Heavensgate was originally conceived as an Easter...
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From: Studies in Black Literature[(essay date Winter 1976) In the following excerpt, Stanton describes how events in Okigbo's life seem to have informed his poetry and influenced his poetic style.] Okigbo claims the following: I don't think that I...
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From: The Question of Language in African Literature Today[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Acholonu examines the musical and mystic dimensions of Okigbo's poetic language in Labyrinths.] For Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Mallarmé, the flag-bearers of the French symbolist...
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From: African Literature Today[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Olaogun argues that the graphology--the physical appearance of the text on the page--of Okigbo's poetry serves as both a source of "obscurity" and a means of "unraveling" the...
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From: UFAHAMU[(essay date 1979-1980) In the following excerpt, Maduakor examines the retrospective quality of Okigbo's poetry and comments on its significance in relation to modern African poetry.] In an interview with Marjory...
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From: World Literature Written in English[(essay date spring 1984) In the following essay, Wieland argues that increased critical attention to Okigbo's earliest work, "Four Canzones," helps to illuminate themes and motifs present throughout his later work.]...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 46, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article appraises Ben Obumselu's examination of Christopher Okigbo's conception of his poetry as music as particularly insightful. Okigbo's intent to make a music of words, evident in his denunciation of poetry of...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe interpretation of Christopher Okigbo's poetry remains deeply controversial more than forty years after his death. The poet himself did not help matters by telling interviewers that he did not ever set out to...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 50, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBY OBI NWAKANMA James Currey, 2017. xxviii + 276 pp. ISBN 9781847011794 paper. doi: 10.2979/reseafrilite.50.2.17 In late September and early October 1966, Christopher Okigbo undertook a secret gun-running mission...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT The association of Christopher Okigbo's poetry with Anglo-American modernist poetics has often attracted two main types of evaluation: the failure of ideology and Eurocentrism. But Okigbo demonstrates...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 43, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewedthe poet and publisher Christopher Okigbo has often been interpreted in terms of a shift from "Euromodernist" to "oral African" poet, from alienated cosmopolitan to committed Biafran. Demonstrating a fresh approach to...
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From: Transition[(essay date 1965) Theroux is an expatriate American novelist, critic, and travel writer who has extensive knowledge of Africa and has set several of his works in Kenya and Malawi. In the following essay, he analyzes the...
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From: Comparative Literature Studies[(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Egudu compares Okigbo's "Lament of the Silent Sisters" to Gerard Manley Hopkins's "The Wreck of the Deutschland."] It should be expected that African writers who have...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAfrican American poet Jay Wright has maintained his allegiance to the influence of African history and literature, which he accepted in the 1960s, as he continued his career across decades marked by multi-cultural...