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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "Bid the Gifted Negro Soar": The Origins of the African American Bardic Tradition 2. "Writ on Glory's Scroll": Paul Laurence Dunbar's Moral Heroism 3. "To Make a Poet Black": Constructing an Ethnic Poetics in Harlem Renaissance Poetry 4. "Weaponed Woman": The Modernist Heroism of Gwendolyn Brooks's Early Verse 5. "Our Souls' Strict Meaning": Robert Hayden's Spiritual History 6. A Port Worth the Cruise: Melvin B. Tolson's Epic Imagination Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
Civil rights movements in literature.
Antislavery movements in literature.
Bards and bardism in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Racism in literature.
Race in literature.