TY  - BOOK
AU  - Margaret Ann Reid
PY  - 2002
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 0890-4847
TI  - Black Protest Poetry
T2  - Polemics from the Harlem Renaissance and the Sixties
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1092622
N2  - 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.
KW  - irony, paradox, street idiom
LA  - English
ER  -