Communion in the House of the Dead: Notes on Some African Prison Poets

Authors

  • Christopher Winks Queens College, City University of New York

Abstract

Discusses the writing of poetry as an act of resistance in works by Wole Soyinka, Abdellatif Laâbi, Breyten Breytenbach, Jack Mapanje, Dennis Brutus, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

Published

2005-09-19

Issue

Section

Articles