Bibliograph

Fettered genius, the African American bardic poet from slavery to civil rights, Keith D. Leonard

Type

Label

Fettered genius, the African American bardic poet from slavery to civil rights, Keith D. Leonard

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-274) and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fettered genius

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

60515071

Responsibility statement

Keith D. Leonard

Sub title

the African American bardic poet from slavery to civil rights

Table Of Contents

Bid the gifted Negro soar : the origins of the African American bardic tradition -- Writ on glory's scroll : Paul Laurence Dunbar's moral heroism -- To make a poet Black : constructing an ethnic poetics in Harlem Renaissance poetry -- Weaponed woman : the modernist heroism of Gwendolyn Brooks's early verse -- Our souls' strict meaning : Robert Hayden's spiritual history -- A port worth the cruise : Melvin B. Tolson's epic imagination

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