A Phenomenology of Selected Postproverbial Poetry of Jack Mapanje
نام عام مواد
[Article]
نام نخستين پديدآور
'Femi 'Dunmade
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
Studies on Jack Mapanje's poetry are largely postcolonial and on the poet's use of Malawian lore but hardly on his use of proverbs. Yet Mapanje deploys proverbs sufficiently in his poetry for the deployment to merit study. Therefore, this study examines the deployment of the umbilical-cordage-of-peculiar-hounds proverb in selected poems from Mapanje's Skipping Without Ropes. It adopts phenomenology. The choice of the theory is to allow the critic to move with aplomb between the four selected poems in a resolute hunt for the essence of the proverb in the poetry. The study reveals that Mapanje ruptures the original meaning of the proverb which is about choice and thirst to see the wonder and beauty of creation as cause to travel to a distant land but deploys it to treat flight from barbarous tyranny. The poetry describes state abuse of dissenters, peine forte er dure, imprisonment and death, and threats to life as cause enough to flee one's country. The rhetorical transformation of the proverb in semantic terms makes the idiom behind the poetry postproverbial. The study also advances Mapanje's penchant for "rhetoric of animality", ritual aesthetics and pit-death symbolism and recommends that Mapanje's deployment of proverb in other poetry merits further study.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2020
توصيف ظاهري
417-431
عنوان
Matatu
شماره جلد
51/2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1875-7421
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
African Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
barbarous tyranny
اصطلاح موضوعی
Comparative Studies & World Literature
اصطلاح موضوعی
Criticism & Theory
اصطلاح موضوعی
Cultural History
اصطلاح موضوعی
dissenters
اصطلاح موضوعی
flight
اصطلاح موضوعی
Literature & Culture
اصطلاح موضوعی
Literature and Cultural Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Mapanje
اصطلاح موضوعی
phenomenology
اصطلاح موضوعی
Postcolonial Literature & Culture
اصطلاح موضوعی
postproverbial
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