To Make a Poet Black

by J. Saunders Redding, Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Introduction)

Overview

This classic study of American Black poetry, first published in 1939 and long out of print, is the work of perhaps the pre-eminent figure in Black Studies of the past two generations. A major contribution to the history of Black thought in America, it ranges widely, beginning in the late eighteenth century with Jupiter Hammon, the first American Black writer, and ending in the 1930s with Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801419829
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	08/04/1988
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.81(d)
Age Range:	18 Years