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Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights
Keith D. Leonard
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Description for Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights
hardcover. Offers insight on the conservatism of Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the genteel members of the Harlem Renaissance, how their rage for assimilation functioned to refute racist notions of difference. This book illustrates nothing less than the defining artistic coherence and political significance of African American poetic tradition. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
In ""Fettered Genius"", Keith D. Leonard identifies how African American poets' use and revision of traditional poetics constituted an antiracist political agency. Comparing this practice to the use of poetic mastery by the ancient Celtic bards to resist British imperialism, Leonard shows how traditional poetics enable African American poets to insert racial experience, racial protest, and African American culture into public discourse by making them features of validated artistic expression. As with the Celtic bards, these poets' artistry testified to their marginalized people's capacity for imagination and reason within and against the terms of the dominant culture. In an ambitious ... Read more
In ""Fettered Genius"", Keith D. Leonard identifies how African American poets' use and revision of traditional poetics constituted an antiracist political agency. Comparing this practice to the use of poetic mastery by the ancient Celtic bards to resist British imperialism, Leonard shows how traditional poetics enable African American poets to insert racial experience, racial protest, and African American culture into public discourse by making them features of validated artistic expression. As with the Celtic bards, these poets' artistry testified to their marginalized people's capacity for imagination and reason within and against the terms of the dominant culture. In an ambitious ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813925059
SKU
V9780813925059
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About Keith D. Leonard
Keith D. Leonard is Assistant Professor of Literature at American University. His work has appeared in African American Review and The Oxford Companion to African American Literature.
Reviews for Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights
Not since Eugene Redmond's Drumvoices (1976) have we had a scholarly examination of African American poetry and poetics that so ably takes on such a broad swath of literary history.... It is inconceivable to me that any libraries or any readers with an interest in American verse would not want to include this volume in their collection. - Aldon Lynn ... Read more