Publication date: 2009-11-24
Dewey code: 813.509974
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Review The Social Life of Poetry: Appalachia, Race, and Radical Modernism (Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics) / Palgrave Macmillan:From Jewish publishers to Appalachian poets, Green’s cultural study reveals the role of “Mountain Whites” in American racial history. Part One (1880-1935) explores the networks that created American pluralism, revealing Appalachia’s essential role in shaping America’s understanding of African Americans, Anglos, Jews, Southerners, and Immigrants. Drawing upon archival research and deft close readings of poems, Part Two (1934-1946) delves into the inner-workings of literary history and shows how diverse alliances used four books of poetry about Appalachia to change America’s notion of race, region, and pluralism. Green starts with how Jesse Stuart and the Agrarians’ defended Southern whiteness, follows how James Still appealed to liberals, shows how Muriel Rukeyser put Appalachia at the center of anti-fascism, and ends with how Don West and the Progressives’ struggled to form interracial labor unions in the South.
Publication date: 1974-06
Dewey code: 811.52
List Price: $75.00
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Review Draft of XXX Cantos / Haskell House Pub Ltd:A segment of Ezra Pound's famous Cantos.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2010-04-15
Dewey code: 973
List Price: $95.00
Price: $88.31
Review Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State (Studies in American Popular History and Culture) / Routledge:Michael Stancliff examines Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's radically egalitarian practice through her involvement in the abolitionist movement, emancipation, Reconstruction, and into the Jim Crow era, placing her work firmly in black-nationalist lineages from which she has been largely excluded.
Edition: Library edition
Publication date: 2009-06-30
Dewey code: 811.509896073
List Price: $80.00
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Review Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary / Univ. of Massachusetts Press:This book explores the impact of African American culture on modernist poetic language by placing black literature and culture at the center of an inquiry into the genealogy of avant-garde poetics. Geoffrey Jacques looks at how blackface minstrelsy, ragtime, vernacular languages, advertising copy, Freud s idea of the Uncanny, vaudeville, the cliché, and Tin Pan Alley style song all influenced modernist poetry. In a key insight, Jacques points out that the black urban community in the United States did not live in ghettos during the years before World War I, but in smaller enclaves spread out among the general population. This circumstance helped catalyze African American culture s dramatic and surprising impact on the emergent avant-garde. By using a wide range of theoretical tools, Jacques poses new questions about literary, cultural, and social history, the history and structure of modernist poetic language, canon formation, and the history of criticism. This contribution to the ongoing debate over early twentieth-century culture presents modernism as an interracial, cross-cultural project, arguing for a new appreciation of the central role black culture played within it. Writers and artists whose works are discussed include Marianne Moore, Charles Chesnutt, Jean Toomer, Wallace Stevens, James A. Bland, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Gertrude Stein, Bert Williams, Zora Neale Hurston, Samuel Beckett, W. C. Handy, Hart Crane, and Clement Greenberg.
Publication date: 2006-03-20
Dewey code: 811.54
List Price: $92.00
Price: $75.99
Review Derek Walcott (Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature) / Cambridge University Press:Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott is one of the Caribbean's most famous writers. His unique voice in poetry, drama and criticism is shaped by his position at the crossroads between Caribbean, British and American culture and by his interest in hybrid identities and diaspora. Edward Baugh's Derek Walcott analyses and evaluates Walcott's entire career over the last fifty years. Baugh guides the reader through the continuities and differences of theme and style in Walcott's poems and plays. Walcott is an avowedly Caribbean writer, acutely conscious of his culture and colonial heritage, but he has also made a lasting contribution to the way we read and value the western literary tradition. This comprehensive survey considers each of Walcott's published books, offering the most up-to-date guide available for students, scholars and readers of Walcott. Students of Caribbean and postcolonial studies will find this a perfect introduction to this important writer.
Creator: Christopher C. De Santis
Publication date: 2005-05-31
Dewey code: 818.5209
List Price: $267.00
Price: $200.97
Review Langston Hughes: A Documentary Volume (Dictionary of Literary Biography) / Gale Cengage:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-07-26
Dewey code: 811.52080357
List Price: $115.00
Price: $104.97
Review Talkin' to Myself: Blues Lyrics, 1921-1942 / Routledge:Talkin' to Myself: Blues Lyrics, 1921-1942 is a compendium of lyrics by the great blues recording artists of the classic blues era. It includes over 2000 songs, transcribed directly from the original recordings, making it by far the most comprehensive and accurate collection of blues lyrics available. Blues lyrics are recognized as a unique form of African-American poetry. They reflect myriad issues, well beyond the clichés of love gone wrong. The blues was a means of communicating a wide range of feelings on topics as varied as love, illness, politics, work and employment, recreation-the entire range of the African-American experience. Artists covered include many major blues performers, as well as the obscure. Some of the better known names include Kokomo Arnold; Blind Willie McTell; Robert Johnson; Charlie Patton; Lead Belly; Son House; Skip James; Blind Blake; Blind Lemon Jefferson; and dozens more. Today, the blues is enjoying a period of popularity and study that is unparalleled in their century-plus tradition. Talkin' to Myself: Blues Lyrics, 1921-1942 will appeal to students of American music, African-American culture, and folk poetry-as well as the myriad blues fans around the globe. It will stand as the standard collection for decades to come.
Publication date: 1997-09
Dewey code: 811.4
List Price: $109.95
Price: $109.95
Review A Critical Study of Emily Dickinson's Letters: The Prose of a Poet (Studies in African Literature New Series) / Mellen University Press:
Authors
- Susan B. A. Somers-Willett
Dewey code: 808.545
List Price: $65.00
Price: $65.00
Review The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry: Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America / University of Michigan Press:The cultural phenomenon known as slam poetry was born some twenty years ago in white working-class Chicago barrooms. Since then, the raucous competitions have spread internationally, launching a number of annual tournaments, inspiring a generation of young poets, and spawning a commercial empire in which poetry and hip-hop merge. The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry is the first critical book to take an in-depth look at slam, shedding light on the relationships that slam poets build with their audiences through race and identity performance, and revealing how poets come to celebrate (and at times exploit) the politics of difference in American culture. With a special focus on African American poets, Susan B. A. Somers-Willett explores the pros and cons of identity representation in the commercial arena of spoken word poetry and, in doing so, situates slam within a history of verse performance, from blackface minstrelsy to Def Poetry. What's revealed is a race-based dynamic of authenticity lying at the heart of American culture. Rather than being mere reflections of culture, Somers-Willett argues, slams are culture-sites where identities and political values get publicly re-figured and exchanged between poets and audiences.
Creator: Robert Chrisman
Publication date: 2001-10-23
Dewey code: 811.52
List Price: $65.00
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Review Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry (Under Discussion) / University of Michigan Press:Robert Hayden (1913-80) belonged to the generation of African American writers that followed the Harlem Renaissance-the generation of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright, among others. This collection of essays on Hayden by leading critics and poets charts his growing reputation as a major writer, the author of some of the twentieth century's most important poems on African American themes, including the famed "Middle Passage" and "Frederick Douglass. " The pieces illuminate the themes and techniques that established Hayden as a key modernist writer with affinities both to poets such as T. S. Eliot, Federico Garcia Lorca, and W. B. Yeats, and to traditions of African American writings, traditions exemplified by such figures as Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes. Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry covers sixty years of commentary, book reviews, and essays, and includes newly published material by Hayden himself, making it an invaluable contribution to our understanding of this poet's vision of experience, artistry, and influence. Forty works examine the life and poetry of the first African American to serve as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (the post now called Poet Laureate) and the first to receive the Grand Prix de la Poesie at the First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar, Senegal, in 1966. This collection will be the standard text on Hayden for many years and will provide an invaluable aid to students, scholars, and the poet's growing number of admirers around the world. [+]Laurence Goldstein is Professor of English, University of Michigan, and editor of the Michigan Quarterly Review. His books include The American Poet at the Movies. Robert Chrisman is founding editor of The Black Scholar. A poet and essayist, he is a Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches literature and media in the Department of African-American Studies.
Creator: Ikenna Dieke
Publication date: 1999-11-30
Dewey code: 813.54
List Price: $131.95
Price: $131.95
Review Critical Essays on Alice Walker: (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) / Greenwood Press:Alice Walker is one of the most influential and controversial figures in twentieth-century American literature. This collection of essays represents a dispassionate scholarly effort to comprehend the essential elements of her prolific imagination, which celebrates women by chronicling their troubled journey from silence to self-expression and from pain to resistance. The essays fall largely into three main groups, focusing on Walker's most famous and controversial novel, The Color Purple, on her poetry, which has for too long met with critical neglect, and on her ecofeminist novel, The Temple of My Familiar.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-02-27
List Price: $180.00
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Review MYSTORY: The Original Harold Lee Rush (USA Version) / BLACKLAND.ORG:Autobiographical memoirs and other true life stories of media personality Harold Lee Rush.
Creator: James Weldon Johnson
Publication date: 2006-01-30
Dewey code: 811.0080896073
List Price: $72.99
Price: $72.99
Review The Book of American Negro Poetry / IndyPublish.com:A landmark anthology of forty poets that brought serious attention to writers such as Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes. The poetry, the prefaces, and Johnson’s critical notes have made this book a classic. Indices.
Publication date: 1994-05-30
Dewey code: 398.08996333
List Price: $101.95
Price: $80.00
Review Folk Poetics: A Sociosemiotic Study of Yoruba Trickster Tales (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) / Greenwood Press:Of all the different sub-genres of oral prose fiction among the Yoruba of Nigeria, the trickster tale is the most popular, especially among the nonruling stratum of society. Sekoni describes and explains literally what makes the trickster tale a trickster tale. The focus is to establish the phenomenology of the trickster tale discourse from a sociosemiotic perspective. More specifically, Sekoni attempts to investigate the sociological and narratological conditions that govern the formation, transformation, and persistence of the trickster tale primarily among the Yoruba masses and secondarily among contemporary Yoruba authors writing in English.
Creator: Steven C Tracy
Edition: annotated edition
Publication date: 2009-02-04
Dewey code: 811.52
List Price: $99.00
Price: $75.81
Review After Winter: The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown / Oxford University Press, USA:John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C. Tracy have brought together for the first time a book-length collection of critical and theoretical writings about Sterling A. Brown that recovers and reasserts his continuing importance for a contemporary audience. Exploring new directions in the study of Brown's life and work, After Winter includes new and previously published essays that sum up contemporary approaches to Brown's multifaceted works; interviews with Brown's acquaintances and contemporaries; an up-to-date, annotated bibliography; and a discography of source material that innovatively extends the study and teaching of Brown's acclaimed poetry, especially his Southern Road, focusing on recordings of folk materials relevant to the subject matter, style, and meaning of individual poems from his oeuvre.
Creator: Onwuchekwa Jemie
Publication date: 2004-02
Dewey code: 398.08996073
List Price: $71.50
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Review Yo' Mama: New Raps, Toasts, Dozens, Jokes, and Children's Rhymes from Urban Black America / Temple University Press:Collected primarily in metropolitan New York and Philadelphia during the classic era of black "street poetry" (i. e. , during the late 1960s and early 1970s) these raps, signifyings, toasts, boasts, jokes and children's rhymes will delight general readers as well as scholars. Ranging from the simple rhymes that accompany children's games to verbally inventive insults and the epic exploits of traditional characters like Shine and Stagger Lee, these texts sound the deep rivers of culture, echoing two continents. Onwuchekwa Jemie's introductory essay situates them in a globally pan-African context and relates them to more recent forms of oral culture such as rap and spoken word. Onwuchekwa Jemie teaches African American and African Literature at Howard University. He is the author of "Langston Hughes: An Introduction to the Poetry" and co-author of "Toward the Decolonization of African Literature".
Edition: illustrated edition
Publication date: 1989-12-11
Dewey code: 809.2896
List Price: $117.95
Price: $117.90
Review Archetypes, Imprecators, and Victims of Fate: Origins and Developments of Satire in Black Drama (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) / Greenwood Press:In searching for a "definitive concept" of black theatre, Euba delves deeply into the Yoruba culture and gods, specifically the attributes and ritual of Esu-Elegbara. The resulting vision goes beyond the standard interpretations to place Esu, the "fate god," squarely at the center of Yoruba ritual and drama, and by extension, at the center of the black writer's concept of character, actor, and audience as victims of fate and satire. This is a sophisticated study that will be of great interest to those seeking to understand African influences on black drama and culture.
Publication date: 1997-12-30
Dewey code: 812.52
List Price: $119.95
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Review Langston Hughes: Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, 1921-1943 / Greenwood Press:Though known primarily as a poet, Langston Hughes crafted well over 40 theatrical works. This book examines Hughes's stage pieces from his first published play, The Gold Piece (1921), through his post-radical wartime effort, For This We Fight (1943). Hughes's stage writing of this period includes such forms as the folk comedy, the protest drama, the historical play and the blues opera. McLaren concludes that the "democratic" argument is ultimately employed by Hughes to challenge segregation in the military and that Hughes's iconography prefigures the black aesthetic of the 1960s. Photographs complement the text.
Authors
- Lauri Ramey in consultation with Paul Breman
Publication date: 2008-03-26
Dewey code: 811.5409896073
List Price: $99.95
Price: $99.95
Review The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium / Ashgate:This innovative volume brings together never-before-published primary works and extensive bibliographic resources on this groundbreaking publishing venture. Materials include memoirs, retrospectives, bibliographies, and detailed archival information that are essential to scholars working in the fields of twentieth-century black poetry, transatlantic studies, and book history.
Publication date: 2004-01-12
Dewey code: 810.9358
List Price: $84.00
Price: $67.20
Review The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature / Cambridge University Press:John D. Kerkering's study examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America. Kerkering argues that writers such as DuBois, Lanier, Simms, and Scott used poetic effects to assert the distinctiveness of certain groups in a diffuse social landscape. Kerkering explores poetry's formal properties, its sound effects, as they intersect with the issues of race and nation. He shows how formal effects, ranging from meter and rhythm to alliteration and melody, provide these writers with evidence of a collective identity, whether national or racial. Through this shared reliance on formal literary effects, national and racial identities, Kerkering shows, are related elements of a single literary history. This is the story of how poetic effects helped to define national identities in Anglo-America as a step toward helping to define racial identities within the United States. This highly original study will command a wide audience of Americanists.
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The Social Life of Poetry: Appalachia, Race, and Radical Modernism (Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics), Draft of XXX Cantos, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State (Studies in American Popular History and Culture), Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary, Derek Walcott (Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature), Langston Hughes: A Documentary Volume (Dictionary of Literary Biography), Talkin' to Myself: Blues Lyrics, 1921-1942, A Critical Study of Emily Dickinson's Letters: The Prose of a Poet (Studies in African Literature New Series), The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry: Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America, Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry (Under Discussion), Critical Essays on Alice Walker: (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies), MYSTORY: The Original Harold Lee Rush (USA Version), The Book of American Negro Poetry, Folk Poetics: A Sociosemiotic Study of Yoruba Trickster Tales (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies), After Winter: The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown, Yo' Mama: New Raps, Toasts, Dozens, Jokes, and Children's Rhymes from Urban Black America, Archetypes, Imprecators, and Victims of Fate: Origins and Developments of Satire in Black Drama (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies), Langston Hughes: Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, 1921-1943, The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium, The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureTop headlines: Catcher in the wrong: Salinger spin-off blocked: A Swedish author whose new book was promoted as a sequel to J.D. 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