Reading Race in American Poetry
Subtitle: AN AREA OF ACT
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 11, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780252068324
Subjects: American history; Ethnic studies; Literary studies: general; Poetry & poets; Poetry; American English; Literary Criticism; USA; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; American - General; 20th century; African American authors; American poetry; History and criticism; Race in literature
First sentence: Few readers today will recognize the origin of this last epigraph, an 1857 book whose subtitle, Slaves without Masters, and whose title, Cannibals All!, are both drawn from the much better-known Thomas Carlyle and his text "The Present Time."