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Title
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Haitian High Drama
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Excerpt
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Moore writes, "Lamine Diakhate's poetry glows with good will and the right political sentiments; it is also something of a technical tour-de-force, for the writer has isolated the tendency of the language towards sonorous emptiness and caried it to the extremes... All the familiar properties of the negritude a la Senegal are here; the nostalgia of the exile, the Ancients with their gnomic wisdom, the long horizons, the rejection of life and the here-and-now in favour of the dim and distant. But the poet fails to handle them with the distinction or originality which alone could make the rehash excusable. A new vocabulary is in desperate need of the younger African poets now writing in French."
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Bibliographic Citation
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"Haitian High Drama (1964-07-16)", The Times Literary Supplement, 1964-07-16, p. 633.
Accessed 2019-07-01. http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EX1200333739/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=beb6f496.
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News Item Type
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Book Review
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Creator
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Moore, Gerald
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Moore, Gerald
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Moore, Gerald
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Date
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1964-07-16
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Identifier
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apdp.news.000020
