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Performing the word : African American poetry as vernacular culture
- Title
- Performing the word : African American poetry as vernacular culture / Fahamisha Patricia Brown.
- Author
- Brown, Fahamisha Patricia, 1942-
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1999.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 00-71 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Details
- Description
- ix, 174 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-163) and index.
- Contents
- Toward a vernacular theory of African American poetry -- Mother tongue: African American vernacular speech as poetic language -- Orality: language and voice -- The poetry of preachment: didacticism in African American poetry -- Song-talk: African American music and song as poetic references -- Tell my story: boast and toast traditions -- "Black is, and Black ain't": of gender and generations in African American poetry.
- Call Number
- Sc E 00-71
- ISBN
- 0813526310 (alk. paper)
- 0813526329 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98046273
- OCLC
- 39981754
- Author
- Brown, Fahamisha Patricia, 1942-
- Title
- Performing the word : African American poetry as vernacular culture / Fahamisha Patricia Brown.
- Imprint
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1999.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-163) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 00-71JFE 00-1309