| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 288 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Race and American culture
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Race and American culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-275) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Of the coming of the new red negro -- African-American poetry, ideology, and the left during the 1930s and 1940s from the third period to the popular front and beyond -- "The strong men gittin' stronger": Sterling Brown and the respresentation and re-creation of the southern folk voice -- "Adventures of a social poet": Langston Highes in the 1930s -- "I am black and I have seen black hands": The narratorial consciousness and constructions of the folk in 1930s African-American poetry -- Hughes's Shakespeare in Harlem and the rise of popular neomodernism --Hysterical ties: Gwendolyn Brooks and the rise of a "high" neomodernism -- The popular front, World War II, and the rise of neomoderism in African-American poetry of the 1940s -- Conclusion: Sullen bakeries of total recall." |
| Summary |
This text surveys African American poetry between the onset of the Depression and 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 "proletarian" early 1930s to the "neo-modernist" late 1940s. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American poetry -- African American authors. |
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Communism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Communism and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American poetry. |
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African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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Political poetry, American -- History and criticism.
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Political poetry, American. |
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Right and left (Political science) in literature.
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Right and left (Political science) in literature. |
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African Americans -- Politics and government.
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African Americans -- Politics and government. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Race relations in literature.
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Race relations in literature. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Smethurst, James Edward. New red Negro. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 019512054X (DLC) 98017128 (OCoLC)38898072 |
| ISBN |
1423759923 (electronic book) |
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9781423759928 (electronic book) |
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1602566542 |
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9781602566545 |
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019512054X (Cloth) |
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9780195120547 |
