Breaking the Silence: Anthology of Liberian Poetry

Author/Contributor(s):	Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh
Publisher:	University of Nebraska Press
Date:	03/01/2023
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Breaking the Silence is the first comprehensive collection of literature from Liberia since the nation's independence in 1822. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley has gathered work from the 1800s to the present, including poets and emerging young writers exploring contemporary literary traditions with African and African diaspora poetry that transcends borders. In this collection, Liberia's founding settlers wrestle with their identity as African free slaves in the homeland from which their ancestors were captured, and writers of the early twentieth and twenty-first centuries find themselves navigating a landscape at odds with itself.

From poets of Liberia's past to young writers of the present, the contributors to this volume celebrate the beauty of their nation while mourning the devastation of a long, bloody civil war.