| Black Protest Poetry: Polemics from the Harlem Renaissance and the Sixties Contributor(s): Hill, James L. (Editor), Reid, Margaret Ann (Author) |
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ISBN: 082042482X ISBN-13: 9780820424828 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $27.84 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 811.509 |
| LCCN: 94011768 |
| Series: Studies in African and African-American Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 6" W x 9" (0.45 lbs) 136 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |