Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition

by Hollis Robbins

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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"

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