%0 Book
%A Margaret Ann Reid
%D 2021
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 0890-4847
%T Black Protest Poetry
%B Polemics from the Harlem Renaissance and the Sixties
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1092622
%X 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.
%K irony, paradox, street idiom
%G English