The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History

The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History
Author: K. Schultz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137082429

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.

The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History

The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History
Author: K. Schultz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137082429

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.

Crossroads Modernism

Crossroads Modernism
Author: Edward Michael Pavlić
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780816638918

"Crossroads Modernism provides an in-depth look at how West African cultural legacies are brought to bear in the structure of a truly African American modernist creative process. Whereas much has been said about the (generally racist) use of blackness in constituting modernism, Crossroads Modernism is the first book to expose the key role that modernism has played in the constitution of blackness in African American aesthetics". --Publisher.

Wise, Why's, Y's

Wise, Why's, Y's
Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1995
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A poetic voyage in five parts that charts the ebbs and flows of the African-American movement.

The Evolutions of Modernist Epic

The Evolutions of Modernist Epic
Author: Václav Paris
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2021-01-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198868219

Explores how modernist national narrative successively reimagined the evolutionary epic from the 1910s to the 1930s.

African American Literature

African American Literature
Author: Hans Ostrom
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 571
Release: 2019-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

This essential volume provides an overview of and introduction to African American writers and literary periods from their beginnings through the 21st century. This compact encyclopedia, aimed at students, selects the most important authors, literary movements, and key topics for them to know. Entries cover the most influential and highly regarded African American writers, including novelists, playwrights, poets, and nonfiction writers. The book covers key periods of African American literature—such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and the Civil Rights Era—and touches on the influence of the vernacular, including blues and hip hop. The volume provides historical context for critical viewpoints including feminism, social class, and racial politics. Entries are organized A to Z and provide biographies that focus on the contributions of key literary figures as well as overviews, background information, and definitions for key subjects.

A Companion to Modernist Poetry

A Companion to Modernist Poetry
Author: David E. Chinitz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 626
Release: 2014-03-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 111860444X

A COMPANION TO MODERNIST POETRY A Companion to Modernist Poetry A Companion to Modernist Poetry presents contemporary approaches to modernist poetry in a uniquely in-depth and accessible text. The first section of the volume reflects the attention to historical and cultural context that has been especially fruitful in recent scholarship. The second section focuses on various movements and groupings of poets, placing writers in literary history and indicating the currents and countercurrents whose interaction generated the category of modernism as it is now broadly conceived. The third section traces the arcs of twenty-one poets’ careers, illustrated by analyses of key works. The Companion thus offers breadth in its presentation of historical and literary contexts and depth in its attention to individual poets; it brings recent scholarship to bear on the subject of modernist poetry while also providing guidance on poets who are historically important and who are likely to appear on syllabi and to attract critical interest for many years to come. Edited by two highly respected and notable critics in the field, A Companion to Modernist Poetry boasts a varied list of contributors who have produced an intense, focused study of modernist poetry.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry
Author: Walter Kalaidjian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2015-01-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316194671

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by eighteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century, in addition to critical accounts of the representative schools, movements, regional settings, archival resources, and critical reception that define modern American poetry. The Companion stretches the narrow term of 'literary modernism' - which encompasses works published from approximately 1890 to 1945 - to include a more capacious and usable account of American poetry's evolution from the twentieth century to the present. The essays collected here seek to account for modern American verse against the contexts of broad political, social, and cultural fields and forces. This volume gathers together major voices that represent the best in contemporary critical approaches and methods.

Counterfeit Culture

Counterfeit Culture
Author: Rob Turner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2019-06-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108428487

Explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts.