To Make a Poet Black: The United States and India, 1947-1964

by J. Saunders Redding

Book 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801419824
• ISBN13: 9780801419829
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher