Afro-Blue
Subtitle: Improvisations in African American Poetry and Culture
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: November 7, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780252028748
Subjects: Black studies; Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; USA; American - African American; History & Criticism - General; Poetry; Literary Criticism & Collections / African-American & Black; American - African American & Black; African American authors; African Americans; African Americans in literature; American poetry; History and criticism; Intellectual life
First sentence: WHEN WILLIAM WEAN HOWELLS wrote that Paul Laurence Dunbar's dialect poems are "'delightful personal attempts and failures for the written and spoken,'" he was blissfully unaware that his statement would haunt African American poets and their critics like a specter for a century.