These Old Writing Paper Blues: The Blues Stanza and Literary Poetry

Ford uses poetry from black poets Etheridge Knight, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks to trace out the tensions between oral and written forms, black and white poetry, and marginal and dominant aesthetics. She argues that the poems themselves attest to the fact that such tensions do not necessar...

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Veröffentlicht in:	College literature 1997-10, Vol.24 (3), p.84-103
1. Verfasser:	Ford, Karen J.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	African American culture African American literature African American studies African Americans American literature Anthologies Ballad poetry Ballads Black literature Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000) Correctional Institutions Harlem Renaissance poetry Hughes, Langston (1902-1967) Judges Knight, Etheridge Literary criticism Lyric poetry Oral poetry Poetry Poets Police Speech Communication Stanzas
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Zusammenfassung:	Ford uses poetry from black poets Etheridge Knight, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks to trace out the tensions between oral and written forms, black and white poetry, and marginal and dominant aesthetics. She argues that the poems themselves attest to the fact that such tensions do not necessarily exist in practice.
ISSN:	0093-3139 1542-4286