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Performing the word : African American poetry as vernacular culture
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- Creator
- Fahamisha Patricia Brown
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1999]
- ©1999
- Physical Details
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- ix, 174 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813526317, 0813526310, 9780813526324, 0813526329
- OCLC
- ocm39981754
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-163) and index.
- Toward a vernacular theory of African American poetry -- Mother tongue: African American vernacular speech as poetic language -- Orality: language and voice -- The poetry of preachment: didacticism in African American poetry -- Song-talk: African American music and song as poetic references -- Tell my story: boast and toast traditions -- "Black is, and Black ain't": of gender and generations in African American poetry