Black Protest Poetry: Polemics from the Harlem Renaissance and the Sixties by Margaret Ann Reid

Black Protest Poetry: Polemics from the Harlem Renaissance and the Sixties

Studies in African and Afro-American Culture

Margaret Ann Reid

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nonfiction classics literary poetry
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Black poets of the Harlem Renaissance (1920-1929) relied heavily upon traditional rhetorical devices, specifically irony and paradox. In contrast, their counterparts of the sixties adopted a more radical approach, employing instead street idiom an...

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