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xii, 316 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-298) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Meetings and quarrels : Introduction : Upon meeting Haki Madhubuti in a gymnasium -- Quarreling in the movement: rethinking Hayden and the Black arts era -- Part II. Faith and the folk : The "cosmic hero": Hayden's Bahá' í faith -- The aesthetics of changing churches: religiousness in Black arts-era poetry -- Witch doctors: Hayden's writerly rejection of vernacular poetics -- Part III. Hayden's histories : "beckoning beckoning": salvific history in the early heritage poems -- "Shadow of time, shadow of blood": forgetting the future in the dark history poems of the 1940s and 1950s -- "the fire that will save": history as theodicy in poems of the 1960s and 1970s -- Part IV. Hayden's legacies : Professors and MCs: institutionalizing Black poetries in the post-movement era -- Hayden's heirs: poetics of history and aesthetic distance in the post-movement era. |
| Summary |
"This book sheds new light on the work of Robert Hayden (1913-80) in response to changing literary scholarship. While Hayden's poetry often reflected aspects of the African American experience, he resisted attempts to categorize his poetry in racial terms. This fresh appreciation of Hayden's work recontextualizes his achievements against the backdrop of the Black Arts Movement and traces his influence on contemporary African American poets. Placing Hayden at the heart of a history of African American poetry and culture spanning the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip-Hop era, the book explains why Hayden is now a canonical figure in 20th-century American literature. In deep readings that focus on Hayden's religiousness, class consciousness, and historical vision, author Derik Smith inverts earlier scholarly accounts that figure Hayden as an outsider at odds with the militancy of the Black Arts movement. Robert Hayden in Verse offers detailed descriptions of the poet's vigorous contributions to 1960s discourse about art, modernity, and blackness to show that the poet was, in fact, an earnest participant in Black Arts-era political and aesthetic debates." -- Publisher's description |
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Hayden, Robert, 1913-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hayden, Robert, 1913-1980. (OCoLC)fst01802254
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| ISBN |
9780472073931 hardcover ; acid-free paper |
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0472073931 hardcover ; acid-free paper |
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9780472053933 paperback ; acid-free paper |
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0472053930 paperback ; acid-free paper |
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9780472124091 (e-book) |
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