Sterling A. Brown

Sterling A. Brown
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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 0813915317
ISBN-13 : 9780813915319
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Synopsis Sterling A. Brown by : Joanne V. Gabbin

Sterling A. Brown's achievement and influence in the field of American literature and culture are unquestionably significant. His poetry has been translated into Spanish, French, German, and Russian and has been read in literary circles throughout the world. He is also one of the principal architects of black criticism. His critical essays and books are seminal works that give an insider's perspective of literature by and about blacks. Leopold Sedar Senghor, who became familiar with Brown's poetry and criticism in the 1920s and 1930s, called him "an original militant of Negritude, a precursor of our movement." Yet Joanne V. Gabbin's book, originally published in 1985, remains the only study of Brown's work and influence. Gabbin sketches Brown's life, drawing on personal interviews and viewing his achievements as a poet, critic, and cultural griot. She analyzes in depth the formal and thematic qualities of his poetry, revealing his subtle adaptation of song forms, especially the blues. To articulate the aesthetic principles Brown recognized in the writings of black authors, Gabbin explores his identification of the various elements that have come together to create American culture.

Sterling A. Brown's A Negro Looks at the South

Sterling A. Brown's A Negro Looks at the South
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 590
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ISBN-10 : 9780190295370
ISBN-13 : 0190295376
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Sterling A. Brown's A Negro Looks at the South by : John Edgar Tidwell

Using oral history and the printed word, Sterling A. Brown set out during the Second World War to capture the response of African Americans, primarily living in the South, to America's involvement in the war and how it affected them. These responses, brought together in extended, non-fiction essays of many different types, illustrate the diversity of opinions in the Black South about the war and the war period in America. For nearly sixty years, the excerpts that were never published languished in Brown's manuscript collection at Howard University. Now, for the first time, all of the completed pieces of unpublished writings are combined with the few published sections into the book that Brown envisioned. The legacy Brown left us is not only a superb portrait of the way in which African Americans of the mid-century talked and lived; he also provided a methodology that oral and written historians will find extremely useful. This is clearly a document from another time, as its now outdated title reminds us, but it reveals a world that still informs our sense of ourselves as a nation. In fact, it is an unforgettable history, which Brown has cast in a bright, elucidating new light.

Afro-modernist Aesthetics & the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown

Afro-modernist Aesthetics & the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 0820320501
ISBN-13 : 9780820320502
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Afro-modernist Aesthetics & the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown by : Mark A. Sanders

Sterling A. Brown’s poetry and aesthetics are central to a proper understanding of African American art and politics of the early twentieth century. This study redefines the relationship between modernism and the New Negro era in light of Brown’s uniquely hybrid poetry and vision of a heterodox, pluralist modernism. Brown, also a folklorist and critic, saw the Harlem Renaissance and modernism as interactive rather than mutually exclusive and perceived the New Negro era as the dawning of African American modernity. Reading Brown’s three collections of poetry in light of their respective historical contexts, Sanders examines the ways in which Brown reconfigured black being and created alternative conceptual space for African Americans amid the prevailing racial discourses of American culture. Brown’s poetics call for revised conceptions of the Harlem Renaissance, black identity, artistic expression, and modernity that recognize the range, depth, and complexity of African American life.

Southern Road

Southern Road
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : UOMDLP:acm6640:0001.001
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Synopsis Southern Road by : Sterling A. Brown

The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown

The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 081015045X
ISBN-13 : 9780810150454
Rating : 4/5 (5X Downloads)

Synopsis The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown by : Sterling A. Brown

Arguably the greatest African American poet of the century, Sterling Brown was instrumental in bringing the traditions of African American folk life to readers all over the world. This is the definitive collection of Brown's poems, and the only edition available in the United States.

A Son's Return

A Son's Return
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Publisher : UPNE
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 1555532756
ISBN-13 : 9781555532758
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis A Son's Return by : Sterling A. Brown

Essays on African-American politics, literature and music by Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989), which point out the biases against black Americans in white cultural expression and argue for a recognition of the cultural contributions of African Americans.

After Winter

After Winter
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 497
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ISBN-10 : 9780195365795
ISBN-13 : 0195365798
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis After Winter by : John Edgar Tidwell

John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C. Tracy have brought together for the first time a book-length collection of critical and theoretical writings about Sterling A. Brown that recovers and reasserts his continuing importance for a contemporary audience. Exploring new directions in the study of Brown's life and work, After Winter includes new and previously published essays that sum up contemporary approaches to Brown's multifaceted works; interviews with Brown's acquaintances and contemporaries; an up-to-date, annotated bibliography; and a discography of source material that innovatively extends th.

Caroling Dusk

Caroling Dusk
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Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105012284209
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Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Caroling Dusk by : Countee Cullen

"For this anthology, Cullen selected the work of thirty-eight poets to, as he put it, "bring together a miscellany of deeply appreciated but scattered verse." The collection includes Paul Laurence Dunbar, often credited as the first Black poet to make a deep and lasting impression on the literary world; James Weldon Johnson, the author of what is referred to now as the Black National Anthem; W. E. B. Du Bois; Jessie Faucet; Sterling A. Brown; Arna Bontemps; Langston Hughes and Cullen's own work. The poets were all known within the literary world and widely published. Each poem is accompanied by autobiographical notes, with the exception of three. The decorations in this book are by African American painter and graphic artist, Aaron Douglas"--J. Willard Marriott Library blog, viewed June 3, 2022.

The Negro Caravan

The Negro Caravan
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Total Pages : 1106
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015004853753
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Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The Negro Caravan by : Sterling A. Brown

The Vintage Book of African American Poetry

The Vintage Book of African American Poetry
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 450
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ISBN-10 : 9780307765130
ISBN-13 : 030776513X
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis The Vintage Book of African American Poetry by : Michael S. Harper

In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets. From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born Phillis Wheatley to the wistful lyricism of Paul Lawrence Dunbar . . . the rigorous wisdom of Gwendolyn Brooks...the chiseled modernism of Robert Hayden...the extraordinary prosody of Sterling A. Brown...the breathtaking, expansive narratives of Rita Dove...the plaintive rhapsodies of an imprisoned Elderidge Knight . . . The postmodern artistry of Yusef Komunyaka. Here, too, is a landmark exploration of lesser-known artists whose efforts birthed the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movements--and changed forever our national literature and the course of America itself. Meticulously researched, thoughtfully structured, The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry is a collection of inestimable value to students, educators, and all those interested in the ever-evolving tradition that is American poetry.