Author: Sterling A. BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
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The Negro Caravan
Author: Sterling A. BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown
Author: Sterling A. BrownPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810150454
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Arguably the greatest African American poet of the century, Sterling Brown was instrumental in bringing the traditions of African American folk life to readers all over the world. This is the definitive collection of Brown's poems, and the only edition available in the United States.
The Negro Caravan
Author: Sterling Allen BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Sterling A. Brown
Author: Joanne V. GabbinPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813915319
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Sterling A. Brown's achievement and influence in the field of American literature and culture are unquestionably significant. His poetry has been translated into Spanish, French, German, and Russian and has been read in literary circles throughout the world. He is also one of the principal architects of black criticism. His critical essays and books are seminal works that give an insider's perspective of literature by and about blacks. Leopold Sedar Senghor, who became familiar with Brown's poetry and criticism in the 1920s and 1930s, called him "an original militant of Negritude, a precursor of our movement." Yet Joanne V. Gabbin's book, originally published in 1985, remains the only study of Brown's work and influence. Gabbin sketches Brown's life, drawing on personal interviews and viewing his achievements as a poet, critic, and cultural griot. She analyzes in depth the formal and thematic qualities of his poetry, revealing his subtle adaptation of song forms, especially the blues. To articulate the aesthetic principles Brown recognized in the writings of black authors, Gabbin explores his identification of the various elements that have come together to create American culture.
The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown
Author: Sterling Allen BrownPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Arguably the greatest African-American poet of the century, and one of the most important American poets, Sterling A. Brown was a contemporary of Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer; as a part of this group, and individually, he has been instrumental in bringing the traditions of African-American folklife to readers all over the world. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The New Red Negro
Author: James Edward SmethurstPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195344200
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The New Red Negro surveys African-American poetry from the onset of the Depression to the early days of the Cold War. It considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African-American poets and organized ideology from the proletarian early 1930s to the neo-modernist late 1940s. This study examines poetry by writers across the spectrum: canonical, less well-known, and virtually unknown. The ideology of the Communist Left as particularly expressed through cultural institutions of the literary Left significantly influenced the shape of African-American poetry in the 1930s and 40s, as well as the content. One result of this engagement of African-American writers with the organized Left was a pronounced tendency to regard the re-created folk or street voice as the authentic voice--and subject--of African-American poetry. Furthermore, a masculinist rhetoric was crucial to the re-creation of this folk voice. This unstable yoking of cultural nationalism, integrationism, and internationalism within a construct of class struggle helped to shape a new relationship of African-American poetry to vernacular African-American culture. This relationship included the representation of African-American working class and rural folk life and its cultural products ostensibly from the mass perspective. It also included the dissemination of urban forms of African-American popular culture, often resulting in mixed media high- low hybrids.
African American Authors, 1745-1945
Author: Emmanuel S. NelsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313007403
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
There has been a dramatic resurgence of interest in early African American writing. Since the accidental rediscovery and republication of Harriet Wilson's Our Nig in 1983, the works of dozens of 19th and early 20th century black writers have been recovered and reprinted. There is now a significant revival of interest in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s; and in the last decade alone, several major assessments of 18th and 19th century African American literature have been published. Early African American literature builds on a strong oral tradition of songs, folktales, and sermons. Slave narratives began to appear during the late 18th and early 19th century, and later writers began to engage a variety of themes in diverse genres. A central objective of this reference book is to provide a wide-ranging introduction to the first 200 years of African American literature. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for 78 black writers active between 1745 and 1945. Among these writers are essayists, novelists, short story writers, poets, playwrights, and autobiographers. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, an overview of the author's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography.
Museums and Communities
Author: Ivan KarpPublisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588343456
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Contributors to this volume examine and illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation projects and the communities they represent and serve. Essays include the role of museums in civil society, the history of African-American collections, and experiments with museum-community dialogue about the design of a multicultural society.
Black American Short Stories
Author: John Henrik ClarkePublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374523541
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
A collection of short stories by African-American authors.
Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit, 1960-1995
Author: Julius E. ThompsonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786422647
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In 1965 Dudley F. Randall founded the Broadside Press, a company devoted to publishing, distributing and promoting the works of black poets and writers. In so doing, he became a major player in the civil rights movement. Hundreds of black writers were given an outlet for their work and for their calls for equality and black identity. Though Broadside was established on a minimal budget, Randall's unique skills made the press successful. He was trained as a librarian and had spent decades studying and writing poetry; most importantly, Randall was totally committed to the advancement of black literature. The famous and relatively unknown sought out Broadside, including such writers as Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker, Mae Jackson, Lance Jeffers, Etheridge Knight, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Audre Lorde and Sterling D. Plumpp. His story is one of battling to promote black identity and equality through literature, and thus lifting the cultural lives of all Americans.