The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka

By Kathy Lou Schultz

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230338739
• ISBN13: 9780230338739
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"