First composed in 1956 in Acoli, a Ugandan language, Okot p’Bitek converted this book-length poem into English, and it was published a decade later. The author’s note informs readers that the English-language version “clipped a bit of the eagle’s wings… Read More ›
As a student of American literature and culture at the State University of New York (Buffalo) during the mid- and late 1970s, Chinweizu encountered the writings of Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstructionist literary criticism, because Derrida was making a… Read More ›