Black Protest Poetry: Polemics from the Harlem Renaissance and the Sixties

Margaret Ann Reid

ISBN 10: 082042482X / ISBN 13: 9780820424828

Published by Peter Lang, New York, N Y, 2001

About this Item

F/F/1st. ed. An uncreased copy inscribed by the author to a close friend. Clean, no markings, appears unread. Comes with an advance purchase sheet from Peter Lang Publishing. 136pp., Bibliographic essay, select bibliography, index. Comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage.`.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Black Protest Poetry: Polemics from the Harlem Renaissance and the Sixties
• Publisher: Peter Lang, New York, N Y
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082042482X
• ISBN 13: 9780820424828
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Black Americana-Black Interest
  • Signed By Author
  • History--Civil and Otherwise

About this title

Synopsis

Black poets of the Harlem Renaissance (1920-1929) relied heavily upon traditional rhetorical devices, specifically irony and paradox. In contrast, their counterparts of the sixties adopted a more radical approach, employing instead street idiom and other modes of Black discourse. While the poets’ strategies of the two periods differ, one element remained constant – the theme of protest. It is this similarity in purpose that marks the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance as a precursor of the revolutionary poetry of the sixties.

About the Author

The Author: Margaret Ann Reid, a native of Cheraw, South Carolina, received her B.A. in English from Morgan State College, her M.A. in English from the University of Iowa, her M.L.A. in Literature from The Johns Hopkins University, and her Ph.D. in English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She serves on the editorial boards of three academic journals and publishes on the literatures of African-Americans and African women. A former Fulbright-Hays recipient for summer study in Kenya and Tanzania, Dr. Reid is Associate Professor of English at Morgan State University.