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

Rabearivelo, Jean-Joseph

Biography

Madagascar

Birth date: 1901-03-04

Birth location: Antananarivo, Madagascar

Death date: 1937-06-22

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, born in 1901 in Madagascar under French colonial rule, is considered to be one of Africa's first modern poets. Rabearivelo grew up poor and never received recognition from the elite circles of colonial Madagascar despite his acclaim as a surrealist, modernist poet. He completed suicide by cyanide in 1937, just before the start of the negritude movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Joseph_Rabearivelo

News Items (5)

Sophiatown Style (1982-08-27) | Poet
Europe Looks Outwards--II: Keeping it Dark: "Negritude" in a Changing World (1962-09-21) | Poet
Remainders (1985-08-23) | Poet
Red island roads (1985-11-01) | Poet
The music of Milan (1996-07-19) | Poet

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La Coupe de cendres: poèmes (1924) (Work Author)
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Volumes (1928) (Poet)
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Poèmes (Presque-songes, Traduit de la nuit) (1960) (Work Author)
Traduit de la nuit (1935) (Poet)
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Chants pour Abéone (1936) (Poet)
Chants pour Abéone (1936) (Work Author)
Lova (1957) (Poet)
Lova (1957) (Work Author)
Des Stances oubliées (1959) (Poet)
Des Stances oubliées (1959) (Work Author)
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Poèmes (Presque-songes, Traduit de la nuit) (1960) (Work Author)
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Amboara poezia sy tononkalo malagasy (1965) (Work Author)
Vieilles chansons des pays d'Imerina (1967) (Poet)
Vieilles chansons des pays d'Imerina (1967) (Work Author)
Poèmes (Presque-songes, Traduit de la nuit) (1960) (Poet)
Poèmes (Presque-songes, Traduit de la nuit) (1960) (Work Author)

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