Fettered genius
Subtitle: the African American bardic poet from slavery to civil rights
By: Keith D. Leonard.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Subjects: American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism.; African Americans -- Intellectual life.; Civil rights movements in literature.; Antislavery movements in literature.; Bards and bardism in literature.; African Americans in literature.; Race relations in literature.; Slavery in literature.; Racism in literature.; Race in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Bid the gifted Negro soar : the origins of the African American bardic tradition; value: Writ on glory's scroll : Paul Laurence Dunbar's moral heroism; value: To make a poet Black : constructing an ethnic poetics in Harlem Renaissance poetry; value: Weaponed woman : the modernist heroism of Gwendolyn Brooks's early verse; value: Our souls' strict meaning : Robert Hayden's spiritual history; value: A port worth the cruise : Melvin B. Tolson's epic imagination.