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001 2005014853
003 DLC
005 20060412142954.0
008 050520s2006 vau b s001 0 eng
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020 $a0813925053 (acid-free paper)
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocm60515071
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050 00 $aPS310.N4$bL46 2006
082 00 $a811.009/896073$222
100 1 $aLeonard, Keith D.,$d1969-
245 10 $aFettered genius :$bthe African American bardic poet from slavery to civil rights /$cKeith D. Leonard.
260 $aCharlottesville :$bUniversity of Virginia Press,$c2006.
300 $aix, 283 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [267]-274) and index.
505 0 $aBid the gifted Negro soar : the origins of the African American bardic tradition -- Writ on glory's scroll : Paul Laurence Dunbar's moral heroism -- To make a poet Black : constructing an ethnic poetics in Harlem Renaissance poetry -- Weaponed woman : the modernist heroism of Gwendolyn Brooks's early verse -- Our souls' strict meaning : Robert Hayden's spiritual history -- A port worth the cruise : Melvin B. Tolson's epic imagination.
650 0 $aAmerican poetry$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aCivil rights movements in literature.
650 0 $aAntislavery movements in literature.
650 0 $aBards and bardism in literature.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in literature.
650 0 $aRace relations in literature.
650 0 $aSlavery in literature.
650 0 $aRacism in literature.
650 0 $aRace in literature.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0513/2005014853.html