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Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing by Anthony Reed
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 213–219.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Hollis Robbins Works cited Bolden Tony . 2004 . Afro-Blue: Improvisations in African American Poetry and Culture . Urbana : University of Illinois Press . Gabbin Joanne V. 1999 . The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry . New Brunswick : Rutgers University...
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Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem , by Jean-Philippe Marcoux
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 417–423.
Published: 01 September 2015
...John Lowney Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem , by Marcoux Jean-Philippe . Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2012 . 233 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 In the introduction to this compelling account of 1960s African American jazz poetry...
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Which Sin to Bear? Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes by David Chinitz
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 243–250.
Published: 01 June 2014
...: Routledge, 2001.
Patterson, Lindsay. “Langston Hughes—the Most Abused Poet in America?”
New York Times June 29, 1969. 5 June 2014.
Smethurst, James. The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American
Poetry. New York: Oxford UP, 1999.
Williams, Carmeletta M., and John Edgar...
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After Revolutionary Alliance: Jazz and Langston Hughes’s Midcentury Internationalism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (4): 367–398.
Published: 01 December 2024
... © 2024 Hofstra University 2024 African American poetry postwar American poetry race and international politics Over the last two decades, critics have become increasingly attuned to the global, transnational dimensions of Langston Hughes’s work, commenting substantively...
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Re-Sounding Folk Voice, Remaking the Ballad: Alan Lomax, Margaret Walker, and the New Criticism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 232–259.
Published: 01 June 2013
..., conflicting critical examina-
tions, beginning with James Weldon Johnson’s critique of Paul Laurence
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Derek Furr
Dunbar’s poetry. As I have shown elsewhere, Johnson had a vital interest
in demonstrating the literary value of African-American folk forms but
he worried that dialect writing...
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Postmodernist Poetry’s “Blue Period”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 531–537.
Published: 01 December 2008
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tional literary criticism and scholarship as well as the collected occasional
prose of such poets as Rosmarie Waldrop, Lorenzo Thomas, and Jerome
Rothenberg, anthologies of avant-garde Southern and African American
poetry, and a wide range of writing that falls under the rubric of poet
ics. Save...
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Gettin’ You Offn th’ Groun
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 318–324.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Steven Yao Ezra Pound and African-American Modernism , edited by Coyle Michael , Orono, Maine : National Poetry Foundation , 2001 . 272 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 Steven Yao
reason to come into being. It has been a great pleasure for us, in the
brief time...
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Writing Dialectic
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 249–258.
Published: 01 June 2005
... experience.
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One significant example of the links Mackey creates between vari
ous traditions as a means of deconstructing misleading boundaries is his
exploration of how European and Anglo-American poetries have mixed
African narratives with classical Greek myths. In his...
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By Any Other Name
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 428–435.
Published: 01 September 2010
... define this version of African
American poetics. And as the subtitle to Peréz-Torres’s book Movements in
Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins suggests, he too sets himself
against such limiting mainstream terms as the only available language
through which Chicano poetry might...
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The Cambridge History of American Poetry , edited by Alfred Bendixen and Stephen Burt
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 110–117.
Published: 01 March 2016
...: Contemporary African American Poetics”); individual decades; and conceptual or categorical groupings (Reena Sastri’s “Psychoanalytic Poetics,” Juliana Spahr’s “Multilingualism in Contemporary American Poetry”). The final chapter, Burt’s “American Poetry at the End of the Millennium,” looks both forward...
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Cultural Exchange in a Black Atlantic Web: South African Literature, Langston Hughes, and Negritude
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 481–512.
Published: 01 December 2014
... the South African writer recounted in his autobiography
(Writing 102-104). Later when Rive was studying for an MA degree at
Columbia University, Hughes invited him for dinner with Arna Bontemps
in Harlem to discuss the poems the two Americans had assembled for a
new edition of The Poetry...
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Imaginary Africa and London’s Urban Wasteland in Edith Sitwell’s “Gold Coast Customs”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 71–91.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of African
with American popular culture typical of early-twentieth-century litera-
ture. In all three poems, the metrical patterns are supposed to resemble
the “cannibal drums” of West Africa, while the nonsense words serve as
the seeming mumbo jumbo of African languages. Gubar’s discussion...
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The Last Quatrain: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Ends of Ballads
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 371–395.
Published: 01 September 2010
... schemes, short,
jaunty lines); a predominance of end-stopped lines; colloquial language;
dialogue; representative characters; minimal, straightforward imagery—
certainly suited Brooks’s plan for her new black poetry. Too, the ballad
had a distinguished lineage in African American culture...
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Revising Lyric Subjectivity
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 324–331.
Published: 01 September 2004
... the poet with the term
paideuma for the concept of cultural morphology. But they also underscore
Pound’s deep interest in African culture and his active, if spotty, engage
ment with African-Americans. Particularly interesting here are the brief
comments that Pound offers to Hughes regarding...
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May Howard Jackson and the Development of Jean Toomer’s Multiracial Modernism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 177–202.
Published: 01 June 2023
... the young writer within an African American literary coterie. In attending to the vital influence of Black literary and social networks on his artistic production, Foley thus offers an important corrective to Toomer’s story of his early artistic loneliness. However important for our understanding...
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Using the Rotted Names: Wallace Stevens’s Racial Ontology as Poetic Key
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 217–236.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Literature 42 , no. 3 : 385 – 95 . Jacques Geoffrey . 2009 . A Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press . Miller J. Hillis . 1965 . Poets of Reality: Six Twentieth-Century Writers . Cambridge, MA...
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O’Hara, Blackness, and the Primitive
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 495–514.
Published: 01 September 2012
... an interest in sexual encounters with
seemingly heterosexual African-American men. Among the anecdotes of
his adventures in the 1950s, Gooch relates that O’Hara invited the black
postman into his apartment for sex, and he fellated a black token clerk
in a change booth in Queens (195-96). O’Hara cast...
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Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres by Jahan Ramazani
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 405–413.
Published: 01 September 2014
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it, and how does it cross and transcend national—and hemispheric—bor-
ders? This book showed how (seemingly) effortlessly Anglo-American
modernists could be brought into conversation with postmodern and
postcolonial poets from around the world. Now, in Poetry and Its Others,
Ramazani continues...
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The Disasters of Youth : Coetzee and Geomodernism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 20–33.
Published: 01 March 2011
... in this way himself, albeit on a smaller scale—he
was denied American citizenship in 1971, for protests made against the
Vietnam War1—a closer model to his idea of the persecuted artist might
be Thomas Hardy.
The story, by now all too familiar, is that Jude the Obscure brought
down...
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Elizabeth Bishop and the New Deal: Queer Poetics and the Welfare State in Key West
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 199–224.
Published: 01 June 2022
... to, that they were Negroes. ( PPL 456–57) In effect, Bishop composes here a list of many of the various people whose needs had to be addressed during a national emergency. While at this time African Americans seem to appear for Bishop as racially other, many were among the people with whom she established...
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