The Devil, the Gargoyle and the Buffoon: The Negro As Metaphor in Western Literature

Literature & Fiction

Johnson, Lemuel A.

History & Criticism

Associated Faculty Pr Inc

The Devil, the Gargoyle, and the Buffoon; The Negro As Metaphor in Western Literature

Associated Faculty Press

Highlife for Caliban (African Writers Library)

Poetry

Africa World Pr

This "high life" in the poetry of Johnson's Sierra Leone Trilogy sets us up for the worlds of Caliban and Tarzan, of St. Augustine and Ophelia; Jane and Shylock; and of His Excellency, the politician. So, too, that of Freetown schools that sound like England and Eton and Harrow. This is "high life".

Hand on the Navel (African Writers Library)

In this, the second volume of his Sierra Leone Trilogy, Lemuel Johnson gives voice to a half-forgotten piece of history, for the most part buried in footnotes and archives: The Royal West African Frontier Force which fought for the allies in Europe, Africa, and Asia during World Wars I and II. The men who saw the strange sights, felt the clash of arms and cultures, came back to their villages and towns unable to forget. "This then is a recording of memories and half-memories, of songs and half-songs - and of half lives," says the dedication, which is addressed to Corporal Bundu, a real soldier of RWAFF, Sierra Leone Regiment, and a man who also once was "pushed deep into France/in his tourniquet and in his morphine." His experiences lead us further into a violent and oddly lyrical world that extends from Burma to Flanders, and in language and style, no less so from the talisman of Swedru to Westminster Abbey and the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II.

Shakespeare in Africa (& Other Venues): Import & the Appropriation of Culture

<p>This complex work explores "constellations of encounters and evidence of import in various contexts, ranging from Oxford to the popular stage in Bombay, and from North America's various negotiations of its putative European ancestries to Shakespeare's reception in Africa as compared with that in Europe and the Americas."</p>

Shakespeare in Africa (& Other Venues: Import & the Appropriation of Culture

Hand on the Navel

ARDIS

Hand on the navel

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