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The Return of the Amasi Bird: Black South African Poetry, 1891 - 1981
by Tim Couzens (ed.); Essop Patel (ed.)
- Used
- very good
- paperback
- First
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0869751956
- ISBN 13
- 9780869751954
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About This Item
Braamfontein, South Africa: Ravan Press, 1982. Paperback. First Impression (stated). Very Good. Gift inscription to half-title page. Text unmarked. Tanned. Spine straight and tight with a light crease. Creases to front cover, sticker remnants to rear cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 411 pages.
The Return of the Amasi Bird provides a broad historical and critical spectrum of almost a century of black South African poetry. With over 300 poems from more than 150 poets, it is a portrait of cultural resistance from the early Christian poets through to the Black Consciousness writers.
The Return of the Amasi Bird provides a broad historical and critical spectrum of almost a century of black South African poetry. With over 300 poems from more than 150 poets, it is a portrait of cultural resistance from the early Christian poets through to the Black Consciousness writers.
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- Books of the World
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- Title
- The Return of the Amasi Bird
- Author
- Tim Couzens (ed.); Essop Patel (ed.)
- Format/binding
- Paperback
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0869751956
- ISBN 13
- 9780869751954
- Publisher
- Ravan Press
- Place of Publication
- Braamfontein, South Africa
- Date published
- 1982
- Keywords
- poems, poetry, cultural, culture, history, South African, South Africa, black power
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africa; Fiction; Religion & Spirituality; Poetry;
- Size
- 8vo
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