Emerging Perspectives on Niyi Osundare Book

	Acknowledgements
	Preface: Niyi Osundare Between Self & Commitment
	Introduction: The People's Poet
	The Wit and Wisdom of Niyi Osundare	3
	Niyi Osundare and His Poetic Choices	17
	Niyi Osundare and the Poetic Statement of a Generation	27
	Explorations in Animist Materialism and A Reading of the Poetry of Niyi Osundare	41
	A Theory of Growth and Maturation: The Earth as the Eye of Osundare's Poetry	61
	Green Oranges and Anthill Castles: An Alienated Literature?	83
	Still Daring the Beast: Niyi Osundare and Contemporary Nigerian Poetry	97
	'Courier with a live coal in his running palm' ('Midlife'): Niyi Osundare as witness to the human in Nigerian public life	115
	Niyi Osundare and Poetry for the People	133
	Morphology and Meaning in Niyi Osundare's Poetry	157
	Beyond 'the rope of a single idiom': Translating African Poetry	179
	Foregrounded Metaphore: Niyi Osundare's Poetic Language	197
	Shafts of Coming Songs: Niyi Osundare and the Poetic of Utopia	211
	Towncrier in the Classroom: Niyi Osundare's Seize the Day	223
	Poetry and Social Mobilization: The teachings of Niyi Osundare	231
	Poet, behold thy tie!	249
	Niyi Osundare's Village Voices and the Oral Art: A Study in Aesthetic Transfer and Linkages	273
	Osundare as Nature Poet: A Simple Sentimentality	287
	Reconstructing the Forgotten Nature and History: Approaching Osundare and His Horses of Memory	299
	Niyi Osundare's Performance Notes	313
	The Performative Context of Niyi Osundare's Poetry	333
	The Poetics of the "Alter-Native" Tradition: The Case of Nigeria's Niyi Osundare and Egypt's Ahmad Fuad Nigm	351
	Post-Colonial Context, Post-Modernist Perspectives: Niyi Osundare's Waiting Laughters and I. Andrukhovych's Carnival Poetry	373
	Long Lost Kin: Niyi Osundare Through an African American Lens	391
	Art Value and Evaluation: Philistinism in Niyi Osundare's "Benin Mask" and Jack Mapanje's "Kabula Curio-Shop"	407
	Consummate Poets of Time: Osundare & Members of His Generation	415
	"I am an Accident of History," a Conversation with Niyi Osundare	437
	Interview With Niyi Osundare	461
	Osundare, Another Interview	483
	Man meaning to man: a close encounter with Niyi Osundare's poetry	493
	The Poet as Dramatist: An Interview	519
	Style and Postcolonial Representation in the Plays of Niyi Osundare	529
	L'Etat Cest Moi? The Premier Performance of The State Visit	539
	The Ambiguity of Autobiography: Anatomy of Niyi Osundare's MidLife	547
	Osundare: A Man For All Seasons	567
	Osundareana, 1976-1996	573
	Poems for Osundare	587
	Afterword	609
	Notes on Contributors	619
	Index	627