Get your ass in the water and swim like me : African American narrative poetry from oral tradition /

Annotation

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jackson, Bruce, 1936-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, ©2004.
Temas:
Folk poetry, American.
Toasts (African American folk poetry)
Narrative poetry, American.
American poetry > African American authors.
Oral tradition > United States.
African Americans > Poetry.
Poésie populaire américaine.
Toasts (Poésie populaire noire américaine)
Poésie américaine > Auteurs noirs américains.
Tradition orale > États-Unis.
Noirs américains > Poésie.
Poésie narrative américaine.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
African Americans
American poetry > African American authors
Folk poetry, American
Narrative poetry, American
Oral tradition
Lyrik
Mündliche Überlieferung
United States
Schwärze
USA
medusa's
head
sex
offender
singer
tales
black
pimps
voodoo
queen
Poetry
poetry.
Folk poetry
Folk poetry.
Poetry.
Poésie populaire.
Poésie.
Anthologie.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Telling and learning toasts
  • Functions and themes: violence, sex, and the failure of romance
  • Pimps and their ladies: insult and reputation
  • Badman and trickster: functional outsiders
  • Shine and the Titanic: goodbye to Charlie
  • Beyond poetry
  • Badmen, crime, and jail
  • Pimps, whores, and other lovers and friends
  • Freaks and supersex
  • Signifying and poolshooting monkey
  • The Titanic toasts
  • Miscellaneous narratives
  • Short versus and drinking toasts.

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