Author: Léopold Sédar Senghor
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Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher: Editions Présence Africaine
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Category : African poetry (French)
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Category : African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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A journal of African and Afro-American literature.

Author: Edward Burrough Brownlow
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Category : Canadian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Author: Peter Benson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520330781
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

Author: Reginald Shepherd
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472025430
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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"Orpheus in the Bronx not only extols the freedom language affords us; it embodies that freedom, enacting poetry's greatest gift---the power to recognize ourselves as something other than what we are. These bracing arguments were written by a poet who sings." ---James Longenbach A highly acute writer, scholar, editor, and critic, Reginald Shepherd brings to his work the sensibilities of a classicist and a contemporary theorist, an inheritor of the American high modernist canon, and a poet drawing and playing on popular culture, while simultaneously venturing into formal experimentation. In the essays collected here, Shepherd offers probing meditations unified by a "resolute defense of poetry's autonomy, and a celebration of the liberatory and utopian possibilities such autonomy offers." Among the pieces included are an eloquent autobiographical essay setting out in the frankest terms the vicissitudes of a Bronx ghetto childhood; the escape offered by books and "gifted" status preserved by maternal determination; early loss and the equivalent of exile; and the formation of the writer's vocation. With the same frankness that he brings to autobiography, Shepherd also sets out his reasons for rejecting "identity politics" in poetry as an unnecessary trammeling of literary imagination. His study of the "urban pastoral," from Baudelaire through Eliot, Crane, and Gwendolyn Brooks, to Shepherd's own work, provides a fresh view of the place of urban landscape in American poetry. Throughout his essays---as in his poetry---Shepherd juxtaposes unabashed lyricism, historical awareness, and in-your-face contemporaneity, bristling with intelligence. A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.

Author: Willis Hall Vittum
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: Saadi A. Simawe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135579830
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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In twentieth-century African American fiction, music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its power as a medium of freedom. This collection explores literary invocations of music.

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Category : African American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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A journal of African and Afro-American literature.

Author: Oscar Ronald Dathorne
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452912289
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 541

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