Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic - Hardcover

Baker, Houston A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299115003 ISBN 13: 9780299115005

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1988

Synopsis

When Houston A. Baker, Jr., one of America's foremost literary critics, first published Afro-American Poetics in 1988, it was hailed as a major revisionist history of both African American culture and criticism. Now available in paperback, this ambitious and enlightening book juxtaposes two of the most fertile periods of African American culture, the 1920s and the 1960s; it includes essays on Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, and Hoyt Fuller. This is also Baker's most personal book, an intellectual autobiography tracing his own beginnings as a scholar of Victorian literature, his "second birth" as he began teaching African American literature, and his visions and revisions of a black aesthetic.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Winner of the 1989-90 College Language Association Award for Outstanding Scholarship

From the Back Cover:

Now available in paperback, this ambitious book juxtaposes two of the most fertile periods of African American culture, the 1920's and the 1960's; it includes essays on Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, and Hoyt Fuller. This is also Baker's most personal book, tracing his beginnings as a scholar of Victorian literature, his 'second birth' as he began teaching African American Literature, and his visions and revisions of a black aesthetic.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0299115003
• ISBN 13: 9780299115005
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212