Black protest poetry
Subtitle: polemics from the Harlem renaissance and the sixties
By: Margaret Ann Reid ; foreword by Nikki Giovanni.
Series: Studies in African and African-American culture ;; vol. 8
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Protest poetry, American -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century; American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Social problems in literature; African Americans in literature; Harlem Renaissance; Polemics; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-127) and index.