Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-241) and index.
Contents:
1. Race Relations as Expressed through the Ballad, the Sonnet and the Blues -- 2. Poetry of Protest -- 3. Roscoe C. Jamison: A Voice Unheard -- 4. Has the American Society Fallen Apart? A Study of Fracture, Violence and Sexual Hanger in Some Poems of Ai's Cruelty -- 5. African-Americans'/ Affrilachians' Suffering Mirrored: How Do Nikky Finney's "Red Velvet" and "Left" Capture Events from the Past in Order to Reshape the Present? -- 6. The Evolution of Jazz and Blues as Cultural Kernels Expressing Racial Iniquity in Komunyakaa's Copacetic -- 7. A Reading in the Poetry of Afro-German May Ayim from Dual Inheritance Theory Perspective: The Impact of Audre Lorde on May Ayim -- 8. What Does Morgan Parker's Beyoncé Add to the Image of Black Women? A Study of Some Poems from There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé.
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