Intertextuality of Black American Spoken Word and African Griot - From the Motherland to America

This book analyzes how two mainstream poets reimagined history, politics, and the arts to create counternarratives that challenged social narratives across time, enabling Black American spoken word poets to communicate and build reciprocal relationships with their listening audiences today across intersections of race, gender, and class.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: From Oral Tradition to Spoken Word Poetry
Chapter One: Genealogical Forebearers and Other Familial Relations
Chapter Two: Innovative Descendants Popularize a Genre
Chapter Three: Meshell Ndegeocello: Dig Up Ethnographic Sounds
Chapter Four: Ursula Rucker Celebrates Devalued Minerals
Conclusion: Finding Family and Establishing Relationships Across Boundaries
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Tammie Jenkins, PhD, is an independent scholar of curriculum instruction.

Product details

• Authors: Tammie Jenkins, Jenkins Tammie, Tammie Jenkins
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.01.2025
• EAN: 9781666933475
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-347-5
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Politics & government, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Politics and government, African History, Creative writing & creative writing guides, Creative writing and creative writing guides, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry and poets