USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: [WoleSoyinkaSociety] SENTINEL LITERARY QUARTERLY - ESIABA IROBI ISSUE NOW LIVE

IN HONOUR OF A DEPARTED AFRICAN SCHOLAR AND WRITER

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Date: 31 July 2010 23:36
Subject: [WoleSoyinkaSociety] SENTINEL LITERARY QUARTERLY - ESIABA IROBI ISSUE NOW LIVE
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You are invited to the new issue of Sentinel Literary Quarterly (Online) - The Esiaba Irobi Special Issue. July - September 2010

Featuring The Minstrel himself in the poems `A Cry of Orgasm'. `Kingdom of the Mad', `Helen, not of Troy', `Laura', `Yale' and `Arboreal'. There's a chance to read again his powerful essay; `The Problem with Post-Colonial Theory: Re-theorising African Performance, Orature, and Literature in the age of Globalisation and Diaspora Studies.'

Tributary works include the poems:

`Elegy for the Minstrel: Esiaba Irobi' by Andy Willoughby

`A Song about what happens' by Nnorom Azuonye

`Next Door' by Uche Nduka

`The Returning' by Zino Asalor

`Seven Stations of the Cross' by Olu Oguibe

The essays:

Esiaba Irobi as Ancestor' by Toyin Adepoju

`The Day the Minstrel Taught Me How to Dance' by Andy Willoughby

And drama:

`Excerpts from Funeral of the Minstrel' a short play by Nnorom Azuonye

Related (scholarly, but not necessarily tributary) works include:

Yabis in the later poems of Esiaba Irobi' by Afam Akeh

Esiaba Irobi's `The Battle of Harlem' (Ten Prenotes and Footnotes)' by Pius Adesanmi

`Romantic Idealism and the Travails of the Artist in Esiaba Irobi's The Other Side of the Mask' by Nobert Oyibo Eze

Beyond Esiaba Irobi

This issue also features our regular stuff. You will have a double helping on Charles Bukowski with two blistering reviews of two books;

`Bukowski revisited' is a big review of Charles Bukowski: The Pleasures of the Damned.Reviewer: Afam Akeh

`When Bukowski met Bukowski' is a punchy review of Howard Sounes' Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life. Reviewer: N Quentin Woolf. (SLQ Resident Reviewer)

There is also a review of Mahmutovic's Thinner than a Hair by Moa-Aaricia Lindunger.

Plus short stories by Wayne Scheer, Hunter Ligiore, Kuranamay Sinha, Claire Girvan, Malcolm Bray and Mark Lewis, and poems by Ikechukwu Obialo Azuonye, Kate Horsley, Hannah Lowe, Christian Ward, Robert Lee Frazier, and Nina Romano.

Where do you have to go? http://www.sentinelquarterly.com

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