Black poets of the United States : from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes
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Author: Wagner, Jean, 1919-

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Poètes Nègres des États-Unis. English

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Wagner, Jean, 1919-

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Douglas, Kenneth translator.

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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1973].

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0252003411, 9780252003417, 025200292X, 9780252002922

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Introduction : The Negro in the United States : Slaves and free men ; The Negro "inferior and subservient" ; The mark of oppression. The origins of black poetry : Written poetry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; Folk poetry

Paul Laurence Dunbar and his time : The Negro in the American tradition in Durban's time : The minstrels ; The plantation tradition in poetry : Irwin Russel ; Joel Chandler Harris ; Thomas Nelson Page and Armistead C. Gordon. The South's revenge

Paul Laurence Dunbar : Biography : Childhood years ; Early successes ; Fame and its drawbacks ; The end. Dunbar and the plantation tradition : Dunbar and the plantation ; Dunbar and the South ; The poet and his theme. Rage consciousness and history : Past and present ; The search for heroes ; Dunbar and racial injustice. The poet of the people : The problem of dialect ; Dunbar and the Negro popular temperament ; The themes of Dunbar's popular poetry. The lyricism of heartbreak: Pessimism and religious doubts

Dunbar's contemporaries : James Edwin Campbell : The theme of interracial love ; The people on Campbell's poetry. Daniel Webster Davis ; J. Mord Allen

The Negro renaissance : The Negro renaissance : New forces : The role of W.E.B. Du Bois ; Black migrations ; Racialism and the new spirit ; The rehabilitation of the Negro past. The problem of self-definition : The discovery of the Negro and of Negro art ; Cultural dualism and its problems ; Art or propaganda?. The poetry of the renaissance : The poets and their public ; The poets and their themes ; Poets in conflict

In search of the spiritual : Claude McKay : Biography : The Jamaica years ; The years in the United States ; Years of vagabondage ; Home to Harlem. The Jamaican sources : Authenticity of form ; Realism of peasant portraits ; Primacy of the earth ; Rejection of the city. The lyricism of militancy : Racial pride ; Hatred ; Target of hatred: evil ; The limits of hatred. Exoticism and the theme of Africa ; Harlem and Negro art ; The spiritual journey

Jean Toomer : The destiny of Jean Toomer ; The poetry of Cane, or, the Pilgrimage to the origins ; Beyond rage: "blue meridian"

Countee Cullen : Cullen's life : A mysterious childhood ; The productive years ; The last years. The dictates of the psyche : The burden of inferiority ; Death the liberator ; Pride as solace. Rage and the African homeland : Race in Cullen's poetic universe ; A black among whites ; Garvey and the African heritage ; Africa as a pagan symbol. Christ as symbol and reality : Christ as a sign of self-contradiction ; Mysticism and spiritual experience ; "The black Christ": a spiritual testament

In search of the people : James Weldon Johnson : Biography : From Florida to Broadway ; In the service of country and race. Dunbar's disciple : Poetry in dialect ; Religious and patriotic conformism. Johnson and the new spirit ; Folklore and race: their rehabilitation : The condemnation of dialect ; The experiment of God's trombones

Langston Hughes : Biography : The restless years ; Early successes ; A literature of commitment. From racial romanticism to jazz : Racial romanticism ; Rebellion: through a glass jazzily. The poetry of the masses : The social setting of the blues ; Class consciousness ; Religion and the masses. American democracy: promises and reality : The American dream ; The poet and reality. Toward a synthesis : Conclusion: Langston Hughes and Harlem

Sterling Brown : Folk strength and folk frailties. The tragic universe of Sterling Brown : The white's conspiracy ; The black man and his fate ; The inanity of faith. Means for survival

Conclusion.

Subjects

LC Subjects

African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
Cullen, Countee, -- 1903-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Du Bois, W. E. B. -- (William Edward Burghardt), -- 1868-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, -- 1872-1906 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Harris, Joel Chandler, -- 1848-1908 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Hughes, Langston, -- 1902-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Johnson, James Weldon, -- 1871-1938.
Toomer, Jean, -- 1894-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation.

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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1973].

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Book

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xxiii, 561 pages ; 23 cm.

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English

ISBN

0252003411, 9780252003417, 025200292X, 9780252002922

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General Note

Translation of: Les poètes Nègres des États-Unis.

General Note

Originally presented as the author's thesis, Sorbonne, 1963.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-545).

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Includes chapters on Dunbar, Hughes, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, and others.

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Translation of: Les poetes Negres des Etats-Unis.

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Wagner, J., & Douglas, K. (1973). Black poets of the United States: from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes . University of Illinois Press.

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Wagner, Jean, 1919- and Kenneth Douglas. 1973. Black Poets of the United States: From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Wagner, Jean, 1919- and Kenneth Douglas. Black Poets of the United States: From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973.

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Wagner, J. and Douglas, K. (1973). Black poets of the united states: from paul laurence dunbar to langston hughes. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Wagner, Jean, and Kenneth Douglas. Black Poets of the United States: From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes University of Illinois Press, 1973.

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