The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History Tolson, Hughes, Baraka

Title:

ISBN:

9781137082428

Personal Author:

Schultz, K. author.

Edition:

1st ed. 2013.

Publication Information New:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Physical Description:

XVIII, 236 p. online resource.

Series:

Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics,

Abstract:

Analyzing the poets Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, this study charts the Afro-Modernist epic. Within the context of Classical epic traditions, early 20th-century American modernist long poems, and the griot traditions of West Africa, Schultz reveals diasporic consciousness in the representation of African American identities.

Subject Term:

America -- Literatures.

Literature -- History and criticism.

North American Literature.

World Literature.

Poetry and Poetics.

Sociocultural Anthropology.

Literary History.