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1) Cane
Author
Language
English
Description
"A powerful work of innovative fiction [made up of] sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life"--P. [4] of cover.
Series
Library of America volume 217
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
867 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five Novels of the 1920s leads off with Jean Toomer's Cane (1923), a unique fusion of fiction, poetry, and drama rooted in Toomer's experiences as a teacher in Georgia. Recognized on publication as a groundbreaking work of literary modernism, Toomer's masterpiece was followed within a few years by a cluster of novels exploring black experience and the dilemmas of black identity in a variety of modes and from different angles. Claude McKay's Home to...
Series
Library of America volume 217, 218
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
2 volumes (867, 848 pages) ; 21 cm, in case 22 cm.
Language
English
Series
Language
English
Description
Features essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from a select group of authors who wrote during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.
From its beginnings in 1919, with soldiers returning from the Great War, to its sputtering end in 1934, with the Great Depression, the New Negro Movement in arts and letters proclaimed the experience of African American men and women in reverberating manifestos, poems of exhilerating energy and candor, and in novels,...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Description
In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many "different, unexpected" gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s symbolized black liberation and sophistication--the final shaking off of slavery, in the mind, spirit, and character of African-Americans. It was a period when the African-American came of age, with the clearest expression of this transformation visible in the remarkable outpouring of literature, art, and music. In these years the "New Negro" was born, as seen in the shift of black leadership from Booker T. Washington...
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
xxxv, 387 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This book is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry, anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes...
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 200 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of one hundred poems about love, organized into such categories as silly love songs, loves me not, and failure to communicate, and includes poems by Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and Seamus Heaney.
Publisher
Scribner Poetry
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of prose poems by American authors, arranged chronologically, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jenny Boully, and including an explanation of the origins and characteristics of a prose poems.
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