To Make a Poet Black

J. Saunders Redding

Published by Cornell University Press 1988

To Make a Poet Black

J. Saunders Redding
With contributions by: Henry Louis Gates

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501732140

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This classic study of American Black poetry, first published in 1939 and long out of print, is the work of perhaps the pre-eminent figure in Black Studies of the past two generations. A major contribution to the history of Black thought in America, it...

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
"...and bid him sing": J. Saunders Redding and the Criticism of American Negro Literature Henry Louis Gates Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
A.J. Saunders Redding Bibliography Publicly Available Download PDF	xxv
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xxix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxi
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxiii
1. The Forerunners Jupiter Hammon, Phillis Wheatley and George Moses Horton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Let Freedom Ring Charles Remond, William W. Brown, Frederick Douglass, Frances Ellen Watkins and James Madison Bell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3. Adjustment James E. Campbell, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charles W. Chesnutt, W. Burghardt Dubois, Fenton Johnson and William S. Braithwaite Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
4. Emergence of the New Negro Claude Mckay, Jean Toomer, Jessie Fauset, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Rudolph Fisher and James Weldon Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 184
Keywords: Poetry & Criticism; Literary Studies; Discrimination & Race Relations

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Published: August 6, 2018
ISBN: 9781501732140