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Author:

Schultz, Kathy Lou.

Title:

The Afro-Modernist epic and literary history: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka / Kathy Lou Schultz.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xviii, 236 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American poetry--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
African American aesthetics.
African American aesthetics.
American poetry.
American poetry--African American authors.
Modernism (Literature)
United States.
Hughes, Langston,--1902-1967.
Tolson, Melvin Beaunorus,--1900-1966.
Baraka, Imamu Amiri,--1934-2014.
Langgedicht.
Schwarze.
Moderne.
USA.
1900 - 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-212) and index.

Contents:

Modern, modernist, Afro-modernist: Melvin B. Tolson in the 1930s and 40s Afro-modernist chronologies -- A poem for the futurafrique: Tolson's libretto for the Republic of Liberia overview -- "In the modern vein": Tolson's Harlem gallery, Book I, the curator -- Bound by law: Langston Hughes in/and the 1950s -- Toward an Afro-modernist future: Langston Hughes's Ask your mama: 12 moods for jazz -- Amiri Baraka's Wise Why's Y's: lineages of the Afro-Modernist epic.

Series:

Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics

ISBN:

0230338739 (alk. paper)
9780230338739 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)755699223

LCCN:

2012041931

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)