TY  - GEN
T1  - Bending the bow : an anthology of African love poetry
T2  - Book collections on Project MUSE.
A2  - Chipasula, Frank Mkalawile
LA  - English
LA  - Multiple languages
PP  - Carbondale
PB  - Southern Illinois University Press
YR  - 2009
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn457224705
AB  - From the ancient Egyptian inventors of the love lyric to contemporary poets, Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Love Poetry gathers together both written and sung love poetry from Africa. This anthology is a work of literary archaeology that lays bare a genre of African poetry that has been overshadowed by political poetry. Frank Chipasula has assembled a historically and geographically comprehensive wealth of African love poetry that spans more than three thousand years. By collecting a continent's celebrations and explorations of the nature of love.
OP  - 285
CN  - PR9346 .B46 2009eb
SN  - 9781441623447
SN  - 1441623442
SN  - 9780809386383
SN  - 0809386380
SN  - 1282138839
SN  - 9781282138834
SN  - 9786613808134
SN  - 661380813X
SN  - 9780809328420
SN  - 0809328429
KW  - Love poetry, African (English)
KW  - Love poetry, African : Translations into English.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Love poetry, African
KW  - Translations
ER  -