Reading Race in American Poetry
Subtitle: An Area of Act
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: June 2, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780252025181
Subjects: American history; Ethnic studies; Literary studies: general; Poetry & poets; 20th Century American Poetry; African American Poetry; 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."