Title: Black Protest Poetry
First published: 2001
Description: "Black poets of the Harlem Renaissance (1920-1929) relied heavily upon traditional rhetorical devices, specifically irony and paradox. In contrast, their counterparts of the sixties adopted a more radical approach, employing instead street idiom and other modes of Black discourse. While the poets' strategies of the two periods differ, one element remained constant - the theme of protest. It is this similarity in purpose that marks the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance as a precursor of the revolutionary poetry of the sixties."--Jacket.
Subjects: African Americans in literature, African American authors, Literature and society, Intellectual life, History and criticism, Protest poetry, American, Harlem Renaissance, Polemics, Social problems in literature, American Protest poetry, American poetry, History, Noirs américains, Protest <Motiv>, Poésie contestataire américaine, Auteurs noirs américains, Dans la littérature, Littérature et société, Protest <Gewalt>, Schwarze, Amerikaans, Politische Lyrik, Gedichten, Vie intellectuelle, Negers, Histoire et critique, Protest, Quartier de Harlem, Poésie américaine, Lyrik, American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century, Protest poetry, history and criticism, American poetry, african american authors, history and criticism
Places: Harlem (New York, N.Y.), N.Y.) Harlem (New York, United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS310.N4 R45 1994