Afro-American Poetics Afro-American Poetics Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesth

by Houston A. Baker Jr.

Book Overview

When Houston A. Baker Jr. one of America's foremost literary critics, first published Afro-American Poetics in 1988, it was hailed as a major revisionist history of both African American culture and criticism. Now available in paperback, this ambitious and enlightening book juxtaposes two of the most fertile periods of African American culture, the 1920s and the 1960s; it includes essays on Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Amiri Baraka, Larry...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299115046
• ISBN13: 9780299115043
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"