The African American sonnet : a literary history /

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"The African American Sonnet: A Literary History draws on extensive archival research to offer the first comprehensive survey of this genre. Timo Müller adopts sonnets to open up fresh perspectives on African American literary history, complicate previous accounts of its development, and offer...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Müller, Timo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
Series:Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
Subjects:
American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
Poésie américaine > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
HISTORY > African American.
African Americans > Intellectual life
American poetry > African American authors
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The genteel tradition and the emergence of the African American sonnet
  • New Negro and genteel protest: the sonnet during the Harlem Renaissance
  • The sonnet and Black transnationalism in the 1930s
  • The vernacular sonnet and the Afro-Modernist project
  • Poetics of the enclave: the sonnet in the age of Black nationalism
  • The spaces of Black experimental poetry.

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