Collected Black Women''s Poetry: Volume 1

Klappentext These four volumes collect the poetic works of eleven African-American women writing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Volume 1 presents two collections by Mary E. Tucker Lambert-- Loew's Bridge, A Broadway Idyl, a poet's-eye view of lower Manhattan just fter the Civil War, and Poems--and Infelicia, a dramatic work by the notorious Adah Isaacs Menken. Volumes 2, 3, and 4 contain works by nine other poets, all of which were were published between 1895 and 1910, a particularly brutal era for blacks. But, surprisingly, only one of these women (Lizelia Moorer) protests the treatment of her race during this period of social upheaval and injustice. The remaining poets all conformed to the ethos of most black writers of the time, "whitewashing" their art while educating and uplifting their people. Their themes are traditional--love, nature, death, Christian idealism and morality, and family--and are for the most part couched in conventional forms and language. As interesting for the subjects that they address as for those that they ignore, these selections offer a unique smapling of poetic voices that, until now, have gone largely unheard. Zusammenfassung These volumes present the works of eleven poets writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Volume 1 contains work by Mary E. Tucker Lambert and the notorious Adah Isaacs Menken. The other three volumes contain works by nine other poets.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joan R. Sherman, Joan R. (Rutgers University) Sherman
• Con la collaborazione di: Joan R Sherman (Editore), Joan R. Sherman (Editore), Joan R. (Rutgers University) Sherman (Editore), Sherman Joan R. (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 14.04.1988
• EAN: 9780195052534
• ISBN: 978-0-19-505253-4
• Pagine: 454
• Serie: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers; The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers; Collected Black Women's Poetry; Schomburg Library of Nineteent
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literary studies: poetry & poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: poetry and poets