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Mourning and melancholy: a comparative study on Christopher Okigbo and Dambudzo Marechera
This study explores the modernist subjectivity in Africa by revisiting two major poets, Christopher Okigbo and Dambudzo Marechera. It argues that the modernist self is created in the form of melancholy and mourning. The main question is to see how the African modernist subjectivity is constructed th...
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School of African and GenderStuds, Anth and Ling
2020
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