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Afro-American Poetics
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Houston A. Baker (Jr.)
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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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 Malco
The Vintage Book of African American Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Michael S. Harper
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: Vintage

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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 Stat
Workings of the Spirit
Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Houston A. Baker (Jr.)
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, the author weighs current critical approaches to black women's wri
Black Poets of the United States
Language: en
Pages: 592
Authors: Jean Wagner
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1973 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Traces the evolution of Afro-American poetry, highlighting individual poets up to the time of the Harlem Renaissance.
Renegade Poetics
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Evie Shockley
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10 - Publisher: University of Iowa Press

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"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