<Span><span><span>To the endless questions, theoretical statements, and hypotheses about </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">how </span><span>Black poets transcribe jazz into the poetic format, this book, while providing a different approach to reading jazz poetry, attempt…
"Jazz Griots studies how four representative African American poets of the 1960s, Langston Hughes, Umbra's David Henderson, and the Black Arts Movement's Sonia Sanchez and Amiri Baraka engage, in the tradition of griots, in poetic dialogues with aesthetics, music, politics, and …
To the endless questions, theoretical statements, and hypotheses about <span style=""font-style:italic;"">how Black poets transcribe jazz into the poetic format, this book, while providing a different approach to reading jazz poetry, attempts to answer the question, <span style=…
Professor Pointer is the first person to offer an English translation of the Epic of Kambili, an African heroic myth. The book is careful to point out that this text deserves to be read by myth scholars and shows that the literary tradition of epic myth-telling extends to Africa…
Professor Pointer is the first person to offer an English translation of the Epic of Kambili, an African heroic myth. The book is careful to point out that this text deserves to be read by myth scholars and shows that the literary tradition of epic myth-telling extends to Africa…