Format:
XVIII, 236 S.
,
23 cm
Edition:
1. ed.
ISBN:
0230338739
,
9780230338739
Series Statement:
Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-212) and index
,
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.
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
Tolson, Melvin Beaunorus 1898-1966
;
Hughes, Langston 1902-1967
;
Baraka, Amiri 1934-2014
