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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Black poets"”.
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Poets of Freedom: The English Romantics and Early Nineteenth-Century Black Poets
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Contemporary english oral poetry by black poets in Great Britain and South Africa : a comparison between Linton Kwesi Johnson and Mzwakhe Mbuli
The general aims of this dissertation are: to study a form of literature traditionally disregarded by a text-bound academy; to argue that form is an important element in ideological analyses of the poetry under discussion; and, on the basis of this second aim, to argue for a comparative, rigorously …
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"Bitten-off things protruding" : the limitations of South African English poetry post-1948
… locally and internationally, into the work of black poets and the work of white poets. Despite the realities of social history which have indeed dichotomised the human experience of South Africa in racial terms, this dichotomy does not seem the most fertile assumption from which to approach the …
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A sturdy Black bridge : a symbolic connection among three generations of Black female poets.
… subordinating one to the other. In The Souls of Black Folks, W. E. B. Du Bois discusses this issue at length. Although he voiced this concern many years ago, the sentiment seems no less true today. In fact, many African-Americans have pointedly articulated their desires to complete the process …
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A Matter of Life and Def: Poetic Knowledge and the Organic Intellectuals in Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry
… comedians, and the host, Mos Def, joined poets in a unique representation of counter-public open mic poetry readings and poetry slams. This dissertation unpacks the poetry, performances, and the production of Def Poetry Jam to explore how a performative art embodied and confronted racial …
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"Beyond Consolation": Or Strangeness, Estrangement, and Strange-ing in the Elegy for the Black Body, 1955-Present
<p>The Elegy for the Black Body examines the mid-twentieth to early-twenty-first-century poetic justice crafted by African American poets to eulogize individual African Americans whose deaths were the result of racial and political violence. In the age of lynching, mass shooting, and police …