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Kofi Awoonor (1935–2013)

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Kofi Awoonor was born George Awoonor-Williams to ethnic Ewe parents in Wheta, Ghana on March 13, 1935. He studied at University College of Ghana and London's University College before earning his doctorate in comparative literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He taught vis mere comparative literature at State University of New York at Stony Brook. His first collection of poetry, Rediscovery and Other Poems, was published in 1964. He was imprisoned by the Ghanaian government in 1975 for political reasons. During his incarceration, he wrote The House by the Sea, a collection of poetry in which he reflects on his ten months in jail. His other works include This Earth, My Brother; Night of My Blood; Ride Me, Memory; Until the Morning After; and The Promise of Hope. He was a collector and translator of oral literature from Ewe as well as a critic of modern African literature in the colonial languages. He served as Ghana's ambassador to Brazil and Cuba in the 1980s as well as United Nations ambassador from 1990 to 1994. He died after sustaining injuries during the terrorist attack on Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya on September 21, 2013 at the age of 78. He was in the city to participate in the Storymoja Hay Festival, a celebration of writing and storytelling. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

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The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry (1996) — Bidragyder — 311 eksemplarer
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This Earth, My Brother (African Writers Series, 108) af Kofi Awoonor
Part of book project. You see, somebody has written a whole book on critical views of this book. You can tell it is important but I didn't like it at all. Please don't be surprised by a spoiler or 2. I couldn't really follow the narrative. The main character was a real jerk. I had trouble feeling sympathy. How could he treat his wife like that? And she had just come back from England, or did the narration wander even more than I thought it was doing? The stream of consciousness was hard to follow and it didn't work for me. The book didn't work for me. I should know more history. The ugliness has a purpose I know, the "earthiness" too -- how can I be as old & well-read as I am and still stop with an unpleasant feeling when a writer uses the words and images of bodily functions. But it did bother me and it put me off. I thought I would get into a story, with characters or a world I could care about, but I never did.… (mere)
 
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