The Collected Poetry (Half French Text)

S dar, L opold, Melvin Dixon (Translation and Introduction)

ISBN 10: 0813918324 / ISBN 13: 9780813918327

Published by University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1998

About this Item

598 pages. Softcover. (some French text) Wrapper very good, no fading. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. In very good condition. Senghor was not only president of the Republic of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, he is also Africa's most famous poet. Record # 32940.

Seller Inventory # 32940

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Poetry (Half French Text)
• Publisher: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813918324
• ISBN 13: 9780813918327
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: None

About this title

Synopsis

Leopold Sedar Senghor was not only president of the Republic of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, he is also Africa's most famous poet. A cofounder of the Negritude cultural movement, he is recognized as one of the most significant figures in African literature. This bilingual edition of Senghor's complete poems made his work available for the first time to English-speaking audiences. His poetry, alive with sensual imagery, contrasts the lushness and wonder of Africa's past with the alienation and loss associated with assimilation into European culture. Translator Melvin Dixon places Senghor's writing in historical persepctive by relating it to both his political involvement and his intellectual development.

About the Author

Leopold Sedar Senghor was born in 1906 in Joal, Senegal and educated in Senegal and France. From 1960 to 1981 he was president of the Republic of Senegal, and in 1983 became the first African and only black intellectual elected to the French Academy. Melvin Dixon (1950-1992) was a Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York, and the author of Vanishing Rooms, Trouble the Water, Ride out the Wilderness, and Change of Territory.