Afro-American Poetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Afro-American Poetics write by Houston A. Baker (Jr.). This book was released on 1988. Afro-American Poetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Baker envisages the mission of black culture since the 1920s as "Afro-American spirit work." In the blues, the post-modernist "chant poem," the oratory of Malcolm X and the political plays of Amiri Baraka, Baker notes the unfolding creation of a "racial epic" in which black Americans may discover their place in U.S. society and find their ancestral roots. He analyzes Jean Toomer's stream-of-consciousness protest novel Cane, ponders why apolitical poet Countee Cullen became a voice of the people and pays tribute to critic-poet Larry Neal and to Hoyt Fuller, the editor of Negro Digest who allied himself with the Black Arts movement. He also traces his own shift from "guerrilla theater revolutionary" to embattled theoretician. ISBN 0-299-11500-3: $22.50 (For use only in the library).
The Vintage Book of African American Poetry
The Vintage Book of African American Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Vintage Book of African American Poetry write by Michael S. Harper. This book was released on 2012-02-01. The Vintage Book of African American Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets. From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born Phillis Wheatley to the wistful lyricism of Paul Lawrence Dunbar . . . the rigorous wisdom of Gwendolyn Brooks...the chiseled modernism of Robert Hayden...the extraordinary prosody of Sterling A. Brown...the breathtaking, expansive narratives of Rita Dove...the plaintive rhapsodies of an imprisoned Elderidge Knight . . . The postmodern artistry of Yusef Komunyaka. Here, too, is a landmark exploration of lesser-known artists whose efforts birthed the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movements--and changed forever our national literature and the course of America itself. Meticulously researched, thoughtfully structured, The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry is a collection of inestimable value to students, educators, and all those interested in the ever-evolving tradition that is American poetry.
Renegade Poetics
Renegade Poetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Renegade Poetics write by Evie Shockley. This book was released on 2011-10. Renegade Poetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Beginning with a deceptively simple question--what do we mean when we designate behaviors, values, or forms of expression as "black"?--Evie Shockley's Renegade poetics teases out the more complex and nuanced possibilities the concept has long encompassed. She redefines black aesthetics descriptively, resituating innovative poetry that has been marginalized becuase it was not "recognizably black" and avant-garde poetry dismissed because it was"--Back cover.
Workings of the Spirit
Workings of the Spirit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Workings of the Spirit write by Houston A. Baker (Jr.). This book was released on 1991. Workings of the Spirit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, the author weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against his own explanation of the founding, theoretical state of Afro-American intellectual history.
Black Poets of the United States
Black Poets of the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Poets of the United States write by Jean Wagner. This book was released on 1973. Black Poets of the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the evolution of Afro-American poetry, highlighting individual poets up to the time of the Harlem Renaissance.
