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Fettered genius : the African American bardic poet from slavery to civil rights
- Title
- Fettered genius : the African American bardic poet from slavery to civil rights / Keith D. Leonard.
- Author
- Leonard, Keith D., 1969-
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.
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- Description
- ix, 283 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Slavery in literature
- Bards and bardism in literature
- Race in literature
- American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism
- Antislavery movements in literature
- Race relations in literature
- African Americans in literature
- African Americans > Intellectual life
- Racism in literature
- Civil rights movements in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-274) and index.
- Contents
- Bid the gifted Negro soar : the origins of the African American bardic tradition -- Writ on glory's scroll : Paul Laurence Dunbar's moral heroism -- To make a poet Black : constructing an ethnic poetics in Harlem Renaissance poetry -- Weaponed woman : the modernist heroism of Gwendolyn Brooks's early verse -- Our souls' strict meaning : Robert Hayden's spiritual history -- A port worth the cruise : Melvin B. Tolson's epic imagination.
- Call Number
- Sc E 06-248
- ISBN
- 0813925053 (acid-free paper)
- 0813925061 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2005014853
- OCLC
- 60515071
- Author
- Leonard, Keith D., 1969-
- Title
- Fettered genius : the African American bardic poet from slavery to civil rights / Keith D. Leonard.
- Imprint
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-274) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 06-248