A History of African American Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781108995559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 282 str.

Lauri Ramey

Opis

Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.

Recenzje

'… successfully expands our understanding of African American poetry, the traditions in which is rooted, and the possibilities it continues to possess.' McKinley E. Melton, ALH Online Review

Spis treści

1. Introduction to a genre; 2. The origins of African American poetry; 3. Emancipation to modernism; 4. The twentieth-century Renaissances; 5. Contemporary African American poetry.