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African American literature has both been influenced by the great African diasporic heritage [7] and shaped it in many countries. It has been created within the larger realm of post-colonial literature, although scholars distinguish between the two, saying that "African American literature differs from most post-colonial literature in that it is written by members of a minority community who ...
Understanding the New Black Poetry: Black Speech and Black Music as Poetic Reference (1973) Stephen E. Henderson (October 13, 1925 – January 7, 1997) was an American professor of African-American literature and culture, [ 1 ] whose 1973 book Understanding the New Black Poetry: Black Speech and Black Music as Poetic Reference is regarded as a ...
C. James Edwin Campbell (poet) Robert Campbell (American artist) Steve Cannon (writer) Waverley Turner Carmichael; Cyrus Cassells; Barbara Chase-Riboud
The poetry of the era was published in several different ways, notably in the form of anthologies. The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923), An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes (1924), and Caroling Dusk (1927) have been cited as four major poetry anthologies of the Harlem Renaissance. [2]
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Randall in 1972. Dudley Randall (January 14, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an African-American poet and poetry publisher from Detroit, Michigan. [1] He founded a pioneering publishing company called Broadside Press in 1965, which published many leading African-American writers, among them Melvin Tolson, Sonia Sanchez, [2] Audre Lorde, Gwendolyn Brooks, [2] Etheridge Knight, Margaret Walker, and ...
Joan Rita Sherman wrote in African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century of Whitman's poetry as "attempts at full-blown Romantic poetry", emulating the American and British authors from that tradition. [2] Whitman himself acknowledged the inspiration of Lord Byron, writing of "the loftiness of Byron's well-wrought rhyme" as an influence. [7]
Black literature is literature created by or for Black people. For more, see: African literature; African-American literature; Afro-Brazilian literature; Black British#Writers; Black Canadians#Culture; Caribbean literature; Haitian literature