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Author : Lauri Ramey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107035478
Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.
Author : Michael S. Harper,Anthony Walton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307765130
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.
Author : Jean-Philippe Marcoux
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739166741
This study is about how four representative African American poets in the 1960s, Langston Hughes, Umbra’s David Henderson, and the Black Arts Movement’s Sonia Sanchez, and Amiri Baraka engage, in the tradition of African griots, in poetic dialogues with aesthetics, music, politics, and Black History, and in so doing narrate, using jazz as meta-language, genealogies, etymologies, cultural legacies, and Black (hi)stories. In intersecting and complementary ways, Hughes, Henderson, Sanchez, and Baraka fashioned their griotism from theorizations of artistry as political engagement, and, in turn, formulated a Black aesthetic based on jazz performativity –a series of jazz-infused iterations that form a complex pattern of literary, musical, historical, and political moments in constant cross-fertilizing dialogues with one another. This form of poetic call-and-response is essential for it allows the possibility of intergenerational dialogues between poets and musicians as well as dialogical potential between song and politics, between Africa and Black America, within the poems. More importantly, these jazz dialogisms underline the construction of the Black Aesthetic as conceptualized respectively by the griotism of Hughes, of Henderson, and of Sanchez and Baraka.
Author : Joan R. Sherman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486111452
Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes. Introduction.
Author : L. Ramey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230610163
In this insightful and provocative volume, Rameyreveals spirituals and slave songs to be a crucial element in American literature. This book shows slave songs'intrinsic value as lyric poetry, sheds light on their roots and originality, anddraws new conclusions on anart form long considereda touchstone of cultural imagination.
Author : Jerry Washington Ward
Publisher : Signet Book
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0451628640
The haunting refrain of the anonymous spiritual "Were You Dere?," the classic rhymes of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's "Bury Me in a Free Land," the jazz beat of Maya Angelou's "Times-Square-Shoeshine-Composition," and the exquisite balance of Etheridge Knight's haikus-the entire rich and varied tradition of African-American poetry appears in this superb anthology, unified throughout by the authenticity of experiences wrung straight from the soul.Trouble the Water, the first collection to cover close to 300 years of poetic achievement in 400 important works by African-American writers, features women as half the contributors and includes nearly 50 poems from the 1980s and 1990s.
Author : Lucy Terry Prince
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781913724207
Bars Fight, a ballad telling the tale of an ambush by Native Americans on two families in 1746 in a Massachusetts meadow, is the oldest known work by an African-American author. Passed on orally until it was recorded in Josiah Gilbert Holland’s History of Western Massachusetts in 1855, the ballad is a landmark in the history of literature that should be on every book lover’s shelves.
Author : Howard Rambsy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472035687
Devoted chiefly to the period from 1965-1976.
Author : Camille T. Dungy
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780820334318
Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry--anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes nature writing is limited to work about the pastoral or the wild. Camille T. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics. This collection features major writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, and Melvin B. Tolson as well as newer talents such as Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington. Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Black Nature brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole. A Friends Fund Publication.
Author : Catherine Clinton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0395895995
A collection of poems by African-American writers, including Lucy Terry, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Walker.
Author : Richard Gray
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781118795422
A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day. Offers a detailed and accessible account of the entire range of American poetry Situates the story of American poetry within crucial social and historical contexts, and places individual poets and poems in the relevant intertextual contexts Explores and interprets American poetry in terms of the international positioning and multicultural character of the United States Provides readers with a means to understand the individual works and personalities that helped to shape one of the most significant bodies of literature of the past few centuries
Author : Yasser K. R. Aman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781527520554
This book consists of eight chapters covering poets from the Harlem Renaissance until the present day. It considers the Harlem Renaissance poets Hughes and Cullen from new perspectives, with regards to two psychological types: self-acceptance and self-dejection. The first two chapters discuss Hughes’ and Cullen’s expression of race relations and the way they protest. Chapter three on Roscoe C. Jamison represents unheard voices, while the fourth chapter, focusing on Ai, analyzes multi-ethnic roots and dissects American society, highlighting the reasons for violence and sexual hunger. Chapter five on Nikky Finney, a representative of Affrilachian poetry and a political activist, focuses on different social and political issues. Chapters six and seven discuss the application of Dual Inheritance Theory on African American and Afro-German poetry. Chapter eight tackles the ongoing effort of redefining black womanhood, with specific emphasis on Morgan Parker.
Author : Joan R. Sherman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252062469
Afro-Americans of the nineteenth century are the invisible poets of our national literature. This anthology brings together 171 poems by 35 poets, from the best known to the unknown, in one volume.
Author : E. Ethelbert Miller
Publisher : Black Classic Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1574780174
This anthology begins with the memory of landscapes and landmarks, presenting poems in the For My People tradition of Margaret Walker. It includes a section titled "Blood and Disappointment in the Land," which documents ongoing social struggles. Other poems focus on the love that is essential for survival, rebirth, and dreams. More than 100 prominent African American poets contribute, including the distinguished and award-winning poets Toi Derricotte, Sam Cornish, Jabari Asim, and Pinkie Gordon Lane.
Author : Latorial Faison
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1495277186
28 Days of Poetry: Volume 1 is an eclectic collection of poems celebrating the history and legacy of African-Americans. The book reflects on slavery and the civil rights movement and paints poetic pictures of the south during a time when America was a divided nation. Young readers will enjoy biographical poems that tell the history of black inventors and other notable leaders in American history. This is the first book of a series written by Faison celebrating Black History.
