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Books on: african american poetry history

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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946

Book by James Edward Smethurst; Oxford University Press, 1999

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, African Americans--Politics And Government, American Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Poetry--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Communism And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Political Poetry, American--History And Criticism, Race Relations In Literature, Right And Left (Political Science) In Literature, United States--Race Relations

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 surveys African American poetry between the onset of the Depression and the early days of the Cold War. The New Red Negro considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African American poets and ...
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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 surveys African American poetry between the onset of the Depression and the early days of the Cold War. The New Red Negro considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African American poets and organized ideology from the "proletarian" early 1930s to the "neo-modernist" late 1940s. This study examines poetry by writers who are canonical, less well-known, and virtually unknown.
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The Columbia History of American Poetry

Book by Jay Parini, Brett C. Millier; Columbia University Press, 1993

Subjects:

American Poetry--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

"These 31 essays... interrogate, dismantle, and ultimately reassemble the history of poetry in the United States. An essential volume that shows how poetry intersects with our lives and vice versa." -- Library Journal
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African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 2000

Subjects:

African American Authors--Biography--Dictionaries, African Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, American Literature--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Literature--African American Authors--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

There has been a dramatic resurgence of interest in early African American writing. The works of dozens of 18th and early 20th century black writers have been recovered and reprinted; there has been a significant revival of interest in the Harlem Renaissance; and several major assessments of 18th ...
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There has been a dramatic resurgence of interest in early African American writing. The works of dozens of 18th and early 20th century black writers have been recovered and reprinted; there has been a significant revival of interest in the Harlem Renaissance; and several major assessments of 18th and 19th century African American literature have recently been published. This reference book provides alphabetically arranged entries for 78 African American writers active between 1745 and 1945. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a summary of the critical response to the author, and primary and secondary bibliographies. A selected, general bibliography concludes the volume.
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Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties

Book by James C. Hall; Oxford University Press, 2001

Subjects:

African American Arts--20th Century, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, African Americans--Social Life And Customs--20th Century, Modernism (Art)--United States, Modernism (Literature)--United States, United States--History--1961-1969, United States--Intellectual Life--20th Century, United States--Social Life And Customs--1945-1970

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Witt The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African-American Poetry, 1930-1946 James Edward Smethurst Neo-slave...Rushdy Riddling the Sphinx: Race, the Writing of History, and Americas Culture Wars Maghan Keita The Melancholy...
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Of Dreams Deferred, Dead or Alive: African Perspectives on African-American Writers

Book by Femi Ojo-Ade; Greenwood Press, 1996

Subjects:

Africa--In Literature, African Americans In Literature, American Literature--African American Authors--Appreciation--Africa, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This is the first collection of essays in which African critics present an in-depth study of African-American writers. These prominent critics from different African countries and backgrounds bring an important perspective to the complex relationship between African Americans and Africa. Through ...
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This is the first collection of essays in which African critics present an in-depth study of African-American writers. These prominent critics from different African countries and backgrounds bring an important perspective to the complex relationship between African Americans and Africa. Through provocative readings of prominent African-American writers, the contributors provide insights into contemporary African-American issues. This collection offers a rare opportunity to view African opinions on what it means to be African American.
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Journal Articles on: african american poetry history

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Toward Feminine Mythopoetic Visions: The Poetry of Gayl Jones

Journal article by Casey Clabough; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007

Subjects:

African American poetry--Criticism and interpretation, American poetry--African American authors, American poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Jones, Gayl--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...most other historically-minded African American writers working in the United States...summarizes, "Joness research on slave history in Brazil informs a kind of work...observes that in Joness first book of poetry, Song For Anninho, she, "with an...
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African American Women's Poetry in the Christian Recorder, 1855-1865: A Bio-Bibliography with Sample Poems

Journal article by Eric Gardner; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006

Subjects:

African American poetry--Criticism and interpretation, African American poetry--Works, African American women poets--Criticism and interpretation, African American women poets--Personalities, African American women poets--Works, American poetry--African American authors, American poetry--Criticism and interpretation, American poetry--Works, Christian Recorder (Periodical)--Criticism and interpretation, Christian Recorder (Periodical)--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...who published poetry in the Christian...poets who were African American women, and...ignored in our history. Notable patterns...Nineteenth Century American Womens Poetry. Iowa City...Scraps of African Methodist Episcopal History. Philadelphia...
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"The Singing Man Who Must Be Reckoned With": Private Desire and Public Responsibility in the Poetry of Countee Cullen

Journal article; African American Review, Vol. 34, 2000

Subjects:

African American poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc., American poetry--African American authors, Cullen, Countee--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Desire--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Lyric poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Responsibility in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...black masculinity that Cullens poetry everywhere embodies. This crisis...fever through the veins of Americans both black and white. In the...discourses had close cousins among African Americans. As early as 1903, Du Bois had proclaimed that the "history of the American Negro is the...
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"And Bid Him Translate: Langston Hughes's Translations of Poetry from French," by Alfred Guillaume

Journal article by Anita Patterson; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007

Subjects:

African American poets--Criticism and interpretation, African American poets--Works, French poetry--Translations and translating, Hughes, Langston--Criticism and interpretation, Hughes, Langston--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...translation entailed, are Pan-Africanist, insofar as all three poets...influenced by modern French poetry at a formative, early phase...From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980...Translators Invisibility: A History of Translation. New York: Routledge...
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Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition

Journal article by Valerie F. Kinloch; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 91, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Swim like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral...Swim Like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral...cultural genres: poetry, speechmaking...evolution of American culture in relation to African American culture...

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Magazine Articles on: african american poetry history

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Looking through the Eyes of Injustice: Integrating Poetry and African-american History

Magazine article by Cassandra Pierce-Thomas; Multicultural Education, Vol. 14, Summer 2007

Subjects:

African Americans, American history, Gossip, Guidelines, Language arts, Learning, Poetry, Prejudice

Collections: History, Education, Entire Library

...Integrating Poetry and African-american History by Cassandra...lengthy, so the history teacher and...notes on the African-Americans whose life...first poem. Poetry at Last! Memoir...bringing in an African-American History calendar that...
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Book Reviewing, African-American Style

Magazine article by Wanda Coleman; The Nation, Vol. 275, September 16, 2002

Subjects:

African American authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American literature, African American writers--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--African American authors, Criticism--Analysis, Race relations--History, United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Into this twenty-first century, African-Americans are still denied full and open...fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry continue to be repositories for...classroom reading during Negro History Week (becoming Black History Month...
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Cyber-Bration of Black History Month: Taste African American Culture on the Web

Magazine article by Rafiki Cal; Black Enterprise, Vol. 27, February 1997

Subjects:

African American scientists--Information services, African Americans--Information services, Blacks--Canada, National Black History Month--Information services, World Wide Web--Usage

Collections: History, Entire Library

...variety of Internet-based activities, such as televideo events, with topics ranging from black history Month to contemporary poetry to African American leaders. The Black History Treasure Hunt presents 19 questions that cover a range of topics...
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Barbara Chase-Riboud: Speaking to the African American Experience

Magazine article by John D'Addario; School Arts, Vol. 95, February 1996

Subjects:

African American women artists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Chase-Riboud, Barbara--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women sculptors--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...fiction and collections of poetry available in most libraries...Romare, and Harry Henderson. The History of Americas Black Artists...Double-day, 1993. _____. Originals: American Women Sculptors. New York...Jacqueline F. Forever Free: African American Women, 1862-1980...
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Sorrow Songs and Flying Away: Religious Influence on Black Poetry

Magazine article by Yusef Komunyakaa; Cross Currents, Vol. 57, Summer 2007

Subjects:

African American poetry--Religious aspects, American poetry--African American authors, American poetry--Religious aspects, Art and religion--Evaluation, Spirituals (Songs)--Influence

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...illustrated by Hammons poem, African American poetry has been indebted to Christian...importance of their gift to the long history of black creative expression...religion isnt overtly expressed in African American poetry. Though the spirituals and...

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Newspaper Articles on: african american poetry history

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'Sost' Tells Uniquely African Story

Newspaper article by Michael Wamble; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 3, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...It is a story that connects with African-American audiences who havent always found...during February to celebrate Black History Month. Others include a soul...students express themselves through poetry, song, dramatic interpretations...
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Celebrating Black History Groups throughout the Chicago Area Commemorate the Achievements of African-Americans during Black History Month

Newspaper article by Virginia Kenyon; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 2, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...730B W. Chicago St., Elgin. This years theme is "African American Mystique - History, Heritage and Harmony." Former Chicago Bulls star...Walter St. The weekend of black music, drama and poetry is presented in a cabaret setting and features...
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Museum Celebrates Verbal Arts; Live VOA Broadcast Fetes Hip-Hop, Poetry

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 6, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the National Museum of American History, opened the five-hour...poets who recited their poetry on stage. "This is a...an extension of the African-American spoken-word...the National Museum of American Historys "Hip Hop Slam, a Celebration...
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Politics on Menu at Restaurant; Busboys Makes Room for Poetry and Drama at Its Two Locations

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 7, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...neighborhood institution. An Iraqi-American who came to the Washington...Langston Hughes, who was a poetry-writing busboy at the Wardman...reflective of the locales history. "Shirlington, in Arlington, had a large African-American community near Four Mile...
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Jamal Ends Year at Alley; African Kora at KenCen

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 29, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...calls "the most famous American jazz hall in Europe...Behmanka," the West African-born musician is still...combining music, oratory and poetry to produce tales of heroes...family has their own history, so the songs are different. They look at history from the inside, from...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: african american poetry history

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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Dickey . To some degree, poetry has also become polarized along...elections. Post Vietnam War American literature has called into...also encompasses the work of African-American (e.g., Nobel Prize...Spiller et al., ed., Literary History of the United States (3d ed...
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Dove, Rita

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Ohio. Her first poetry collection, Ten...precise, and evocative. History as seen from an African-American perspective is perhaps...1980), and the history of her own family...laureate, the first African American to hold the post...
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Baraka, Amiri

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Note (1961), Selected Poetry (1979), Transbluesency...plays are The Motion of History and Other Plays (1978...Confirmation: An Anthology of African-American Women (1983). His collected...intensely involved with the African-American community. He founded...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of the centurys African-American playwrights, August...M. Bieber, The History of Greek and Roman...of Innovation: A History of European and American Theatre and Drama...The Cambridge History of American Theatre (3 vol...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...elsewhere, see American literature...and South African literature...in literary history. The energy...experimental poetry by different...Yeats, whose poetry fused romantic...watershed in both American and English literary history. Its difficulty...

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