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.
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