Performing the word
Performing the word: African American poetry as vernacular culture Fahamisha Patricia Brown
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1999.
ISBN: 0813526329
DDC: 811.009896073
LCC: PS310
Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-163) and index.
Toward a vernacular theory of African American poetry -- Mother
tongue: African American vernacular speech as poetic language --
Orality: language and voice -- The poetry of preachment: didacticism
in African American poetry -- Song-talk: African American music and
song as poetic references -- Tell my story: boast and toast
traditions -- "Black is, and Black ain't": of gender and generations
in African American poetry.
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