Reading race in American poetry : an area of act
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Reading race in American poetry : an area of act
University of Illinois Press, c2000
- : pbk
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Contents of Works
- Prospects of America: nation as woman in the poetry of DuBois, Johnson, and McKay / Felipe Smith
- "Darken your speech": racialized cultural work of modernist poets / Rachel Blau Duplessis
- W.S. Braithwaite vs. Harriet Monroe: the heavyweight poetry championship, 1917 / Lorenzo Thomas
- Poetics of the Americas / Charles Bernstein
- "The step of iron feet": creative practice in the war sonnets of Melvin B. Tolson and Gwendolyn Brooks / Maria K. Mootry
- Black margins: African-American prose poems / Aldon Lynn Nielsen
- Bob Kaufman, Sir Real, and his revisionary surreal self-presentation / Kathryne V. Lindberg
- Decolonizing the spirits: history and storytelling in Jay Wright's Soothsayers and omens / C.K. Doreski
- From Gassire's lute: Robert Duncan's Vietnam War poems / Nathaniel Mackey
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780252025181
Description
Situated at the intersection of poetry, race, and politics, this collection exposes the many and various ways race informs American poetry. Contributors examine the historical influence of race on critical reception and the evolution of racial definitions and archetypes. They take a fresh look at influential and overlooked figures who have shaped poetic dialogue about race, such as William S. Braithwaite, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Duncan, James Weldon Johnson, Bob Kaufman, Claude McKay, Harriet Monroe, Melvin B. Tolson, and Jay Wright. They consider the pressures of race on poetic form and the racialized cultural work of modernist poets such as Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. They also address questions of identity and national belonging for black Americans, white use of African and African-American materials, the conspicuous absence of innovative or experimental black poets from anthologies supporting "multicultural" curricula, and other topics of current and historical interest.
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: pbk ISBN 9780252068324
Description
Situated at the intersection of poetry, race, and politics, this collection exposes the many and various ways race informs American poetry. Contributors examine the historical influence of race on critical reception and the evolution of racial definitions and archetypes. They take a fresh look at influential and overlooked figures who have shaped poetic dialogue about race, such as William S. Braithwaite, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Duncan, James Weldon Johnson, Bob Kaufman, Claude McKay, Harriet Monroe, Melvin B. Tolson, and Jay Wright. They consider the pressures of race on poetic form and the racialized cultural work of modernist poets such as Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. They also address questions of identity and national belonging for black Americans, white use of African and African-American materials, the conspicuous absence of innovative or experimental black poets from anthologies supporting ""multicultural"" curricula, and other topics of current and historical interest.
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