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Author:

Leonard, Keith D., 1969-

Title:

Fettered genius : the African American bardic poet from slavery to civil rights / Keith D. Leonard.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

ix, 283 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American poetry--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
Civil rights movements in literature.
Antislavery movements in literature.
Bards and bardism in literature.
African Americans in literature
Race relations in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Racism in literature.
Race in literature.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780813925066 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0813925061 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780813925059 (acid-free paper)
0813925053 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60515071

LCCN:

2005014853

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)