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A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

Red island roads (1985-11-01)

Type

Book Review

Published

1985-11-01
The Times Literary Supplement

Authors (1)

Sweetman, David

Citation

"Red island roads", The Times Literary Supplement, 01 Nov 1985, p. 1243 The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive,, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200448104/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=8111ba93. Accessed 15 Dec 2019

Excerpt

...You would think that the Malagasy themselves would exist in a waking dream, with lemurs playing about their heads in a distant version of the Peaceable Kingdom. Yet there are no abstract nouns in the central Malagasy language and their greatest poet, Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, killed himself in 1937 because he could not reconcile his nationalism with the French language and culture in which he was obliged to work...

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Related People (5)

  • Rabearivelo, Jean-Joseph | Poet
  • Sweetman, David | Critic
  • Sweetman, David | Article Author
  • Murphy, Dervla | Writer
  • Bathory, Elizabeth | Politician

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  • The Times Literary Supplement