The Afro-Modernist epic and literary history: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka /

The Afro-Modernist epic and literary history: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka / by Kathy Lou Schultz.

Analyzing the poets Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, this study charts the Afro-Modernist epic. Within the context of Classical epic traditions, early 20th-century American modernist long poems, and the griot traditions of West Africa, Schultz reveals diasporic consciousness in t...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Schultz, Kathy Lou (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Series:Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics.
Subjects:
American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
African American aesthetics.
American poetry.
American poetry > African American authors.
Modernism (Literature)
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Modern, modernist, Afro-modernist: Melvin B. Tolson in the 1930s and 40s Afro-modernist chronologies
  • A poem for the futurafrique: Tolson's libretto for the Republic of Liberia overview
  • "In the modern vein": Tolson's Harlem gallery, Book I, the curator
  • Bound by law: Langston Hughes in/and the 1950s
  • Toward an Afro-modernist future: Langston Hughes's Ask your mama: 12 moods for jazz
  • Amiri Baraka's Wise Why's Y's: lineages of the Afro-Modernist epic.

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