Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry

Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry
Author: L. Ramey
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2008-02-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230610161

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In this insightful and provocative volume, Rameyreveals spirituals and slave songs to be a crucial element in American literature. This book shows slave songs'intrinsic value as lyric poetry, sheds light on their roots and originality, anddraws new conclusions on anart form long considereda touchstone of cultural imagination.


Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 210
Authors: L. Ramey
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02-04 - Publisher: Springer

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In this insightful and provocative volume, Rameyreveals spirituals and slave songs to be a crucial element in American literature. This book shows slave songs'i
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Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 197
Authors: L. Ramey
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-09 - Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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In this insightful and provocative volume, Rameyreveals spirituals and slave songs to be a crucial element in American literature. This book shows slave songs'i
A History of African American Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 283
Authors: Lauri Ramey
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-21 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.
Black Music, Black Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 362
Authors: Gordon E. Thompson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-15 - Publisher: Routledge

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Black Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry. It does so by linking a diverse