Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 401 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 41 |
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 41
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Contents |
Samuel W. Allen -- Johari M. Amini (Jewel Christine McLawler Latimore ; Johari M. Kunjufu) -- Russell Atkins -- Alvin Aubert -- Gerald William Barrax -- Joanne M. Braxton -- Margaret T.G. Burroughs -- Lucille Clifton -- Charles E. Cobb, Jr. -- Sam Cornish -- Jayne Cortez -- Victor Hernandez Cruz -- Margaret Esse Danner -- Henry Dumas -- Ebon (Leo Thomas Hale ; Ebon Doley) -- James Andrew Emanuel -- Mari Evans -- Julia Fields -- Calvin Forbes -- Nikki Giovanni -- Michael S. Harper -- David Henderson -- Everett H. Hoagland III -- Angela Jackson -- Lance Jeffers -- Ted Joans -- Bob Kaufman -- Etheridge Knight -- Pinkie Gordon Lane -- Audre Lorde -- Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) -- E. Ethelbert Miller -- May Miller -- Pauli Murray -- Eugene Perkins -- Sterling D. Plumpp -- Dudley Randall -- Eugene B. Redmond -- Conrad Kent Rivers -- Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Sonia Sanchez -- Gil Scott-Heron -- A.B. Spellman -- Lorenzo Thomas -- Askia Muhammad Toure (Rolland Snellings) -- Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr. -- Tom Weatherly -- Sherley Anne Williams -- Jay Wright -- Ahmos Zu-Bolton II |
Summary |
Essays on African-American poets whose works helped to shape a contemporary literature, but also helped to reclaim, recapture, and reshape a culture, through their inventiveness and wisdom and have invigorated Afro-American and American literature in language, style, form, and substance |
Notes |
"A Bruccoli Clark book." |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
African American poets -- Biography -- Dictionaries
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African Americans in literature -- Dictionaries
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African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Dictionaries
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American poetry -- African American authors -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
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American poetry -- African American authors -- Dictionaries
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American poetry -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.
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American poetry -- 20th century -- Dictionaries
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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Genre/Form |
Bio-bibliography.
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Biographies.
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Dictionaries.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Davis, Thadious M., 1944-
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Harris, Trudier.
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LC no. |
85016093 |
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