Title The Afro-Modernist epic and literary history: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka / by Kathy Lou Schultz

Published New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Series Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics Contents 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 Summary Analyzing the poets Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, this study charts the Afro-Modernist epic. Within the context of Classical epic traditions, early 20th-century American modernist long poems, and the griot traditions of West Africa, Schultz reveals diasporic consciousness in the representation of African American identities Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism Modernism (Literature) -- United States African American aesthetics. Literary studies: poetry & poets -- English -- USA. Literary studies: from c 1900 -- English -- USA. Black & Asian studies -- English -- USA. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. Literature. African American aesthetics American poetry American poetry -- African American authors Modernism (Literature) United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137082428 1137082429 9780230338739 0230338739

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