cam a22 5 4500 600220141 CHVBK 20200912031325.0 200306s2020 gau b||| 001 0 eng| 2019053562 978-0-8203-5694-5 hardcover 0-8203-5694-8 hardcover 978-0-8203-5764-5 paperback 0-8203-5764-2 paperback 978-0-8203-5695-2 electronic book (IDSBB)007219060 (OCoLC)1123234212 (OCoLC)1123237248 DLC ger DLC OCLCO OCLCF YDX rda PS153.N5 R535 2020 811/.0420996073 23 810 15 Forms of contention influence and the African American sonnet tradition Hollis Robbins Athens The University of Georgia Press [2020] 254 pages 24 cm Text txt rdacontent/ger ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen n rdamedia/ger Band nc rdacarrier/ger Includes bibliographical references and index "Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition tells the story of African American sonnet influence: who wrote sonnets and when, who published sonnets, who praised and who opposed the form, who wrote about them critically, how sonnets were included in anthologies, how sonnets have been in and out of fashion, and how sonnet-writers contended with each other. The story of the sonnet's appeal to African American poets from the nineteenth century through the tumultuous twentieth and into the twenty-first, even as sonnet writing remained a vexed pursuit for black poets, for black poetry anthologizers, for Black Arts advocates, and for Black Studies academics, is rich and surprising. Scholarship on black sonnets is only beginning to catch up with the continued output of black sonnets over the past century and a half, particularly in the post-Black Art years. Historically, academic study of African American literature has focused on four concerns: the historical and economic conditions of production and publication of black literature; the political and cultural importance of black literature in America; genres of and trends in black literature; and the nature of the literature as reflective of the black experience. This literary history of African American sonnets engages with these concerns but also opens up a fifth conversation: auxiliary genealogies of influence for black aesthetic production that foreground form and that promote new conversations about form generally: how exactly it enables participation and protest, the overthrow and undermining of aesthetic expectation. Thus, Robbins uses the sonnet as a case study for exploring the broader literary history of African American literature, offering a thorough analysis of the contentious relationship of an old world poetic form to new world poetry"-- 1800-1999 fast Geschichte gnd American poetry African American authors History and criticism Sonnets, American History and criticism American poetry 19th century History and criticism American poetry 20th century History and criticism American poetry fast American poetry African American authors fast Sonnets, American fast Schwarze (DE-588)4116433-7 gnd Sonett (DE-588)4055555-0 gnd USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd Criticism, interpretation, etc fast Robbins Hollis 1963- author BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 acq-record IDSBB A192 A192 FH ENG IDSBB 700 1- Robbins Hollis 1963- author SWISSBIB 59331686X