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The African American Sonnet: A Literary History

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Availability:In StockContributor:Timo MüllerSeries:Margaret Walker Alexander African American StudiesPublish date:2020-04-20Pages:184
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781496828217ISBN-10:1496828216UPC:9781496828217Book Category:Literary Criticism, PoetryBook Subcategory:American, PoetryBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.42 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCX0HTNGCM

The African American Sonnet: A Literary History

Some of the best known African American poems are sonnets: Claude McKay's "If We Must Die," Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel," Gwendolyn Brooks's "First fight. Then fiddle." Yet few readers realize that these poems are part of a rich tradition that formed after the Civil War and comprises more than a thousand sonnets by African American poets. Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781496828217ISBN-10:1496828216UPC:9781496828217Book Category:Literary Criticism, PoetryBook Subcategory:American, PoetryBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.42 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCX0HTNGCM
Timo Müller is professor of American studies at the University of Konstanz. He is author of The Self as Object in Modernist Fiction: James, Joyce, Hemingway and coeditor of English and American Studies: Theory and Practice and Poem Unlimited: New Perspectives on Poetry and Genre. He has published articles in various English and German journals, including American Literature, Arizona Quarterly,...
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi

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