The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History [electronic resource] : Tolson, Hughes, Baraka /
Schultz, K.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index.
Modern, modernist, Afro-modernist: Melvin B. Tolson in the 1930s and 40s Afro-modernist chronologies -- A poem for the futurafrique: Tolson's libretto for the Republic of Liberia overview -- "In the modern vein": Tolson's Harlem gallery, Book I, the curator -- Bound by law: Langston Hughes in/and the 1950s -- Toward an Afro-modernist future: Langston Hughes's Ask your mama: 12 moods for jazz -- Amiri Baraka's Wise Why's Y's: lineages of the Afro-Modernist epic.
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.
America—Literatures.
Literature   .
Anthropology.
Poetry.
Ethnology.
Literature—History and criticism.
North American Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Anthropology.
Poetry and Poetics.
Cultural Anthropology.
Literary History.