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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
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...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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Rabearivelo, Jean-Joseph | Poet
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Sweetman, David | Critic
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Sweetman, David | Article Author
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Murphy, Dervla | Writer
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Bathory, Elizabeth | Politician
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The Times Literary Supplement