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The Necessary Past: Revising History in Contemporary African American Poetry

English

By (author): Annette Debo

Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future

Poets are lyric historians, proclaimed Langston Hughes. Today, historical poetry offers a lyric history necessary to our current momentpoetry with the power to correct the past, realign the present, and create a more hopeful, or even hoped-for, future. The Necessary Past: Revising History in Contemporary African American Poetry focuses on six of todays most celebrated poets: Elizabeth Alexander, Natasha Trethewey, A. Van Jordan, Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, and Camille T. Dungy. Their works reimagine the interiority of Black historical figures like the so-called Venus Hottentot Sara Baartman and the would-be spelling champion MacNolia Cox, the African American Native Guard who fought in the Civil War and the unknown victims of domestic violence, Jack Johnson and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Medgar Evers and those freed and enslaved in the early nineteenth century. These poets shift the power dynamic in revising our shared history, reconfiguring who speaks and whose stories are told, and writing a past that frees readers to change the present and envision a more just future. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 272g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Apr 2024
  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780810146877

About Annette Debo

Annette Debo is a professor of English at Western Carolina University. She is the author of The American H.D. (2012) and editor of H.D.'s Within the Walls and What Do I Love? (2014) as well as coeditor of the MLA volume Approaches to Teaching H.D.'s Poetry and Prose (2011).

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