Anglophone African poetry has become a significant medium through which African society from the year 2000 to date is mirrored. The younger Anglophone African poets, widely referred to as the poets of the third-generation, have always used their poetry as means to respond to both historical and current socio-political circumstances that tend to distinguish Africa from the rest of the world. Their poetry now constitutes counter-hegemonic discourse against bad leadership in Africa and against corrupt African social and medical institutions. Using Hyginus Ekwuazi’s The Monkey’s Eyes as a representative poetry of the younger Anglophone African poets, emphasis is made on how the poet depicts the African society and its hospitals. The paper analyzes the collection as a sequel to all other collections of poetry produced by the younger poets at this period. It reveals the condition in which the poetry is produced and how it has responded to the decay in African society and its hospitals. The paper points out that though the older generation of the Anglophone African poets responded to similar socio-political situation, the younger generation of the Anglophone African poets has become the prominent voice in this period and that their poetry provides a clear picture of what is happening in Africa within this time space. Being a new set of voices on the terrain of the Anglophone African poetry, a study of this poetry opens up a new platform upon which this so-called “aesthetic of rage” is appreciated. Note:  An earlier version of this paper was presented at Birkbeck University of London in an International Conference captioned “Mirror, Mirror: Perceptions, Deceptions, Reflections in Time” organized by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (LCIR) on 10th March, 2018 in London, UK.

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反映社会，反映医院：Hyginus Ekwazi 的诗歌与国家建设的挑战

讲英语的非洲诗歌已成为反映 2000 年至今非洲社会的重要媒介。年轻的讲英语的非洲诗人，被广泛称为第三代诗人，总是用他们的诗歌作为回应历史和当前社会政治环境的手段，这些环境往往将非洲与世界其他地区区分开来。他们的诗歌现在构成了反对非洲糟糕领导以及腐败的非洲社会和医疗机构的反霸权话语。以埃克瓦兹的《猴子的眼睛》作为非洲年轻一代英语诗人的代表诗，强调诗人如何描绘非洲社会及其医院。本文分析该诗集是这一时期年轻诗人创作的所有其他诗集的续集。它揭示了诗歌的创作条件以及它如何应对非洲社会及其医院的衰败。论文指出，尽管老一代非洲英语诗人对类似的社会政治形势做出了回应，但年轻一代的非洲英语诗人已成为这一时期的突出声音，他们的诗歌清晰地描绘了正在发生的事情在这个时空中的非洲。作为英语非洲诗歌领域的一组新声音，对这首诗歌的研究开辟了一个新平台，在这个平台上欣赏这种所谓的“愤怒美学”。笔记：