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Dialogical Triads and Dynamic Identity in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Poetry [PDF]
African American poetry has long served as a powerful platform for exploring the complexities of identity within a society marked by racial injustice and discrimination.
Ebtihal Elshaikh
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Derridean Hauntology in Selected Poetry of Maya Angelou and Lucille Clifton [PDF]
This paper deals with aspects of Derridean hauntology in the poetry of May Angelou and Lucille Clifton , two prominent , albeit understudied, African American women poets.
Naglaa Hassan
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THE FUNCTION OF POETRY IN THE MODERN WORLD: A CASE STUDY OF WALT WHITMAN AND AUDRE LORDE’S POEMS
Lyric poetry has historically referred to a genre that we think of as brief, musical, and personal as well as subjective. This article addresses the role of lyric poetry in the modern world, and how critical analysis enables us to better appreciate the ...
Lauri Scheyer, Zanyar Kareem Abdul
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Symbolism in The Home Themed Poems in A Selection Of Two Female Native American Poets [PDF]
This research provides an analytical and contextual reading of a selection of poems by the American poets: Joy Harjo and Natasha Trethewey. It discusses native American perspective and its sense of aspiration and rebirth as shown in their poetry.
Nessma Abdel Tawab Salim
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American Performance poetry influenced the way in which the practice developed in other countries. Contemporary African, Japanese, and Arab poets started to write more and more for the stage.
Higyed Alexandru
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Scholars, such as Kimberly Ruffin and Katherine Lynes, reconsider American environmental poetry that excludes African American ecopoetic traditions of the antebellum period. According to Ruffin, in order to reconstruct and enhance our sense of ecopoetry,
Shaibal Dev Roy
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Phillis Wheatley in American Literary History and African American Literary Criticism [PDF]
The paper makes a survey of the life and works by Phillis Wheatley (1753?- 1784), the first African American female poet, analyses critical reception of her poetry during her lifetime and up to nowadays, shows the way her literary reputation has been ...
Olga Yu. Panova
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Problems in Translating Musical Elements in African American Poetry after 1950
In most cases, African American poetry eschews traditional literary norms. Contemporary African American poets tend to ignore grammatical rules, use unusual typography on many occasions, include much of their cultural heritage in their poetry, and ...
Kristina Kočan
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Roots of Lorca’s Black Poetry in Van Vechten’s Vision of the African American Spiritual
Just as Lorca identified the Andalusian Gypsies (hereafter Roma) with deep song, so he equated New York African Americans with their spirituals, as defined in Carl Van Vechten’s 1925 article, “The Folksongs of the American Negro: The Importance of the ...
Nelson R. Orringer
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The first translations of Harlem renaissance poetry in Slovenia
From the present-day perspective Harlem Renaissance poetry represents an epoch-making contribution by America's black authors to the mainstream literature.
Jerneja Petrič
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