Black protest poetry
Black protest poetry: polemics from the Harlem renaissance and the sixties Margaret Ann Reid; foreword by Nikki Giovanni
Publisher: New York : P. Lang, c2001.
ISBN: 082042482X
DDC: 811.509358
LCC: PS310
Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)
Summary:
"Black poets of the Harlem Renaissance (1920-1929) relied heavily
upon traditional rhetorical devices, specifically irony and paradox.
In contrast, their counterparts of the sixties adopted a more radical
approach, employing instead street idiom and other modes of Black
discourse. While the poets' strategies of the two periods differ, one
element remained constant - the theme of protest. It is this
similarity in purpose that marks the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance
as a precursor of the revolutionary poetry of the sixties."--BOOK
JACKET.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-127) and index.
Foreword: The Faith of a Mustard Seed (in the Power of a Poem) /
Nikki Giovanni -- 1. Introduction: Rooted in Tradition -- 2. The
Harlem Renaissance -- 3. The Revolutionary Sixties -- 4. Conclusion
-- App. Possible Source for the Lynching in Anne Spencer's "White
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