Description |
xxiii, 561 pages ; 23 cm |
Series |
An Illini book |
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Illini book.
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Note |
Translation of: Les poètes Nègres des États-Unis. |
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Originally presented as the author's thesis, Sorbonne, 1963. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-545). |
Contents |
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. |
Summary |
Includes chapters on Dunbar, Hughes, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, and others. |
Language |
Translation of: Les poetes Negres des Etats-Unis. |
Subject |
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Kay, Claude, 1890-1948 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.
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American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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African Americans in literature.
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Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967 (OCoLC)fst00004219
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Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 (OCoLC)fst00045815
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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 (OCoLC)fst00049863
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Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908 (OCoLC)fst00044712
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Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 (OCoLC)fst00029843
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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 (OCoLC)fst00053661
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Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946 (OCoLC)fst00006329
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
(OCoLC)fst00799627
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African Americans in literature. (OCoLC)fst00799727
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American literature -- African American authors.
(OCoLC)fst00807114
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Indexed Term |
Poetry in English American black writers 1861-1945 Critical studies |
Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Added Author |
Douglas, Kenneth, translator.
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Added Title |
Poètes Nègres des États-Unis. English
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Other Form: |
Online version: Wagner, Jean, 1919- Poètes Nègres des États-Unis. English. Black poets of the United States. Urbana, University of Illinois Press [1973] (OCoLC)551434973 |
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Online version: Wagner, Jean, 1919- Poètes Nègres des États-Unis. English. Black poets of the United States. Urbana, University of Illinois Press [1973] (OCoLC)609908252 |
ISBN |
025200292X |
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9780252002922 |
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0252003411 (pbk.) |
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9780252003417 (pbk.) |
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