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Afro-American Poetics : Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic
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Afro-American Poetics : Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic Paperback - 1996

by Baker, Houston A., Jr

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  • Title Afro-American Poetics : Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic
  • Author Baker, Houston A., Jr
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 212
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
  • Date 1996-02-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP18539028
  • ISBN 9780299115043 / 0299115046
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.49 x 5.46 x 0.71 in (21.56 x 13.87 x 1.80 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Harlem Renaissance, American literature - African American
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88002724
  • Dewey Decimal Code 810.989

From the rear cover

Now available in paperback, this ambitious book juxtaposes two of the most fertile periods of African American culture, the 1920's and the 1960's; it includes essays on Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, and Hoyt Fuller. This is also Baker's most personal book, tracing his beginnings as a scholar of Victorian literature, his 'second birth' as he began teaching African American Literature, and his visions and revisions of a black aesthetic.

About the author

Houston A. Baker, Jr., is professor of English, Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations, and director of the Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania. His many books of criticism include Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance and Blues, Ideology and Afro-American Literature, and he has published three collections of poems. He is also the editor of many books, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.

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