Languages:English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published) Media:Paperback Pages:136 Shipping Weight (lbs):0.4 Dimensions (in):8.8 x 5.8 x 0.4
ISBN:082042482X EAN:9780820424828
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Product Description Black poets of the Harlem Renaissance (1920-1929) relied heavily upon traditional rhetorical devices, specifically irony and paradox. In contrast, their counterparts of the sixties adopted a more radical approach, employing instead street idiom and other modes of Black discourse. While the poets' strategies of the two periods differ, one element remained constant--the theme of protest. It is this similarity in purpose that marks the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance as a precursor of the revolutionary poetry of the sixties.
