The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka

ISBN-13: 9780230338739 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 236 str.

Kathy Lou Schultz; Stanley Ed. Schultz

Opis

Analyzing the poets Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, this study charts the Afro-Modernist epic. Within the context of Classical epic traditions, early 20th-century American modernist long poems, and the griot traditions of West Africa, Schultz reveals diasporic consciousness in the representation of African American identities.

Recenzje

"Kathy Lou Schultz's The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka is a useful contribution to scholarship on the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, with an extended chapter concluding the study on Amiri Baraka." (A Year's Work in English Studies, 2015)

Spis treści

1: Modern, Modernist, Afro-Modernist: Melvin B. Tolson in the 1930s and 40s 2: A Poem for the Futurafrique: Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia 3: 'In the Modern Vein': Tolson's Harlem Gallery 4: Bound By Law—Langston Hughes in/and the 1950s 5: Toward An Afro-Modernist Future: Langston's Hughes's ASK YOUR MAMA: 12 MOODS FOR JAZZ 6: Amiri Baraka's Wise Why's Y's: Lineages of the Afro-Modernist Epic

O autorze

Kathy Lou Schultz is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Memphis, USA where she directs the Honors Program.