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A History of African American Poetry Lauri Ramey

A History of African American Poetry By Lauri Ramey

A History of African American Poetry by Lauri Ramey

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This is the only critical history of African American poetry from its origins to the present. African American poetry is as old as America and a touchstone of American identity, but is often overlooked. This is the only book providing an overview of this genre from spirituals to hip-hop.

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A History of African American Poetry by Lauri Ramey

African American poetry is as old as America itself, yet this touchstone of American identity is often overlooked. In this critical history of African American poetry, from its origins in the transatlantic slave trade, to present day hip-hop, Lauri Ramey traces African American poetry from slave songs to today's award-winning poets. Covering a wide range of styles and forms, canonical figures like Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) and Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) are brought side by side with lesser known poets who explored diverse paths of bold originality. Calling for a revised and expanded canon, Ramey shows how some poems were suppressed while others were lauded, while also examining the role of music, women, innovation, and art as political action in African American poetry. Conceiving of a new canon reveals the influential role of African American poetry in defining and reflecting the United States at all points in the nation's history.

A History of African American Poetry Reviews

'In this compact survey, Ramey (English, Hunan Normal Univ., China) corrals her lifelong learning into a useful history of African American poetry, and she offers compelling reasons for considering works and poets previously disregarded and for reconsidering many who were misunderstood ... This book keeps discourse current and research up to date in light of past cultural and racist exigencies ... Highly Recommended.' L. L. Johnson, Choice
'... is the essence of African American poetry - the 'tremendously resilient core that preserves its identity even in the face of a lot of political pressure to assimilate,' and allows it to embrace 'an equally strong process of regeneration'.' Andrew Peart, The University of Chicago Magazine
'For students, scholars, and fans of cultural products indebted to African American cultural innovation, this lineage-building work is essential.' Alea Adigweme, Reed Magazine
'... the visualization of connecting threads linking seemingly disparate poets, periods, and forms, crystalizes an understanding of African American poetry that highlights valuable consistencies in the tradition without simplifying the work.' McKinley E. Melton, ALH Online Review
'... successfully expands our understanding of African American poetry, the traditions in which is rooted, and the possibilities it continues to possess.' McKinley E. Melton, ALH Online Review

About Lauri Ramey

Lauri Ramey is Xiaoxiang Scholars Program Distinguished Professor at Hunan Normal University. Her previous publications include Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry (2010), The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975 (2008), Black British Writing (with R. Victoria Arana, 2009), and a two-volume anthology set (with Aldon Lynn Nielsen) Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans (2006) and What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America (2015).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to a genre; 2. The origins of African American poetry; 3. Emancipation to modernism; 4. The twentieth-century Renaissances; 5. Contemporary African American poetry.

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GOR013968533
9781108995559
1108995551
A History of African American Poetry by Lauri Ramey
Lauri Ramey
Used - Like New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2021-10-28
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