Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka

Schultz, K.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-11-19

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349341801

DOI: 10.1057/9781137082428

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 236