Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition

by Hollis Robbins

Book Overview

Forms of Contention argues for the centrality of sonnet writing to African American poetry, focusing on significant sonnets, key anthologies, and critical debates about poetic form to show that the influence of black sonnet writers on each other challenges long-standing claims that sonnet writing is primarily a matter of European influence. The banishment of much nineteenth- and twentieth-century formal poetry from the black poetry canon in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820357642
• ISBN13: 9780820357645
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"