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Black Protest Poetry - Polemics from the Harlem Renaissance and the Sixties (Paperback)
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Black Protest Poetry - Polemics from the Harlem Renaissance and the Sixties (Paperback)
Series: Studies in African and Afro-American Culture, 8
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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. « I thoroughly enjoyed reading this insightful and
skillfully woven study of the rhetorical strategies of the protest
poetry from the Harlem Renaissance and the revolutionary sixties.
As a product of the revolutionary sixties, I think Dr. Margaret
Reid makes excellent commentaries and comparisons that shed new
literary light on both dynamic periods. (Carolyn Rodgers, Poet,
Teacher) « Margaret Ann Reid's book resonates with brilliance and
scholarship. She offers a vision of Black literature that is vital
to our understanding of the Black Arts Movement and beyond. A major
study. (Sonia Sanchez, Poet, Essayist, Teacher, Activist) « Dr.
Reid's book is structured as a quintessential poetry/literature
course textbook, which is destined to become a standard. The
context for understanding the words of poetry on their paper is
pointedly, excellently established. The historical perspectives
provide a sure footing for students of black literature (and others
who are interested) from which to see the chronicle of these
movements which ebb and then flow with unremitting force. (Johari
Amini, Poet, Teacher)
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