عنوان

African-American poets, vol.1:

(Number (ISBN

1604134003

(Number (ISBN

9781604134001

Number

b580289

Title Proper

African-American poets, vol.1:

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

1700s-1940s

First Statement of Responsibility

edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Bloom's Literary Criticism/Chelsea House, ©

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2009

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

vii, 264 p. ; 25 cm.

Series Title

Bloom's modern critical views.

Text of Note

Robert Hayden : the apprenticeship : Heart-shape in the dust (1940) / Pontheolla T. Williams --; Gwendolyn Brooks : the 1940s : a milieu for integrationist poetics / B.J. Bolden --; Black modernism? The early poetry of Jean Toomer and Claude McKay / Wolfgang Karrer --; The adventures of a social poet : Langston Hughes from the popular front to black power / James Smethurst --; Inventing a "Negro literature" : race, dialect, and gender in the early work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Caroline Gebbhard --; Creative collaboration : as African American as sweet potato pie / Frances Smith Foster --; "Bid the gifted Negro soar" : the origins of the African American bardic tradition / Keith D. Leonard --; Rewriting Dunbar : realism, Black women poets, and the genteel / Paula Bernat Bennett --; The Harlem Renaissance : depicting the "new Negro" / Lena Ahlin --; A familiar strangeness : the spectre of whiteness in the Harlem Renaissance and the Black arts movement / Emily Bernard --; Lyric stars : Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes / James Smethurst --; What a difference a "way" makes : Wheatley's ways of knowing / April C.E. Langley.

African Americans -- Intellectual life.

African Americans in literature.

American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism.

edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Harold Bloom

Electronic name

[Book]

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