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Black poets of the United States; from Paul Laurance Dunbar to Langston Hughes. / By Jean Wagner; translated by Kenneth Douglas.
LIBRA - Rare PS153.N5 W313 1973 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wagner, Jean, 1919-
- Series:
- Illini book
- An Illini book
- Standardized Title:
- Poètes Nègres des États-Unis. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence.
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hughes, Langston.
- Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908--Criticism and interpretation.
- Harris, Joel Chandler.
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963--Criticism and interpretation.
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Kay, Claude, 1890-1948--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kay, Claude.
- Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967--Criticism and interpetation.
- Toomer, Jean.
- Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946--Criticism and interpretation.
- Cullen, Countee.
- Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.
- Johnson, James Weldon.
- Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946.
- Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967.
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
- Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908.
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- African Americans.
- African Americans in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 561 pages, 7 unnumbered pages. ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana, University of Illinois Press 1973.
- Contents:
- Chapter One: Introduction
- Part One: Paul Laurence Dunbar and His Time. Chapter Two: The Negro in the American Tradition in Dunbar's Time; Chapter Thee: Paul Laurence Dunbar; Chapter Four: Dunbar's Contemporaries
- Part Two: The Negro Renaissance. Chapter Five: The Negro Renaissance; Chapter Six: Claude McKay; Chapter Seven: Jean Toomer; Chapter Eight: Countee Cullen; Chapter Nine: James Weldon Johnson; Chapter Ten: Langston Hugh; Chapter Eleven: Sterling Brown; Chapter Twelve: Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Original French edition published under title Les Poètes Nègres des États-Unis by Librairie Istra, Paris, 1962.
- Originally presented as the author's thesis, Sorbonne, 1963.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-545) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 025200292X
- 0252003411
- OCLC:
- 613569
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