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• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 41,5 Mb
• Release Date : 21 March 2019

Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 53,5 Mb
• Release Date : 21 March 2019

African American poetry is as old as America itself, yet this touchstone of American identity is often overlooked. In this critical history of African American poetry, from its origins in

• Publisher : Vintage
• File Size : 33,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 February 2012

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,

• Publisher : Courier Corporation
• File Size : 34,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 March 2012

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.

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 39,9 Mb
• Release Date : 04 February 2008

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

• Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
• File Size : 45,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 October 2020

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.

• Publisher : University of Georgia Press
• File Size : 28,9 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 2024

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

• Publisher : Signet Book
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• Release Date : 02 June 1997

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 "

• Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• File Size : 42,7 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 1998

A collection of poems by African-American writers, including Lucy Terry, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Walker.

• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• File Size : 54,7 Mb
• Release Date : 02 March 2015

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