Schultz The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History

Tolson, Hughes, Baraka
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-08242-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Analyzing the poets Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, this study charts the Afro-Modernist epic. Within the context of Classical epic traditions, early 20th-century American modernist long poems, and the griot traditions of West Africa, Schultz reveals diasporic consciousness in the representation of African American identities.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schultz, K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Modern, Modernist, Afro-Modernist: Melvin B. Tolson in the 1930s and 40s 2: A Poem for the Futurafrique: Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia 3: 'In the Modern Vein': Tolson's Harlem Gallery 4: Bound By Law—Langston Hughes in/and the 1950s 5: Toward An Afro-Modernist Future: Langston's Hughes's ASK YOUR MAMA: 12 MOODS FOR JAZZ 6: Amiri Baraka's Wise Why's Y's: Lineages of the Afro-Modernist Epic

Über Autor(innen)

Kathy Lou Schultz is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Memphis, USA where she directs the Honors Program.