Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 5, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781403975690
Subjects: Poetry & poets; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American - African American; Poetry; Literary Criticism & Collections / African-American & Black; African American authors; African Americans; American poetry; History and criticism; Slaves; Songs and music; United States
Description: This book restores the slaves? songs to their rightful place in American literature for their intrinsic value as lyric poetry, and as a touchstone of the American imagination.