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Title: Black Protest Poetry

Black Protest Poetry

Polemics from the Harlem Renaissance and the Sixties

by Margaret Ann Reid (Author)
©2002 Textbook XVI, 136 Pages
English Studies
Series: Studies in African and Afro-American Culture, Volume 8

Summary

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.

Details

Pages
XVI, 136
Year
2002
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820424828
Language
English
Keywords
irony paradox street idiom
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2001. XVI, 136 pp.

Biographical notes

Margaret Ann Reid (Author)

The Author: Margaret Ann Reid, a native of Cheraw, South Carolina, received her B.A. in English from Morgan State College, her M.A. in English from the University of Iowa, her M.L.A. in Literature from The Johns Hopkins University, and her Ph.D. in English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She serves on the editorial boards of three academic journals and publishes on the literatures of African-Americans and African women. A former Fulbright-Hays recipient for summer study in Kenya and Tanzania, Dr. Reid is Associate Professor of English at Morgan State University.

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