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     Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 1069 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: |
I am currently wading through a number of dissertations on Poetry (by such as Sir Phillip Sydney, Edgar Allen Poe, etc)preparatory to conducting a Poetry workshop and want to include some by African Americans. I don't know of any. I do not mean anthologies, I mean criticism and analysis. Can anybody suggest any? | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 2076 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Cyna Angelousy, that well-known unheard of black poetress, has said that poetry is a bunch of verses that sometimes rhyme, usually inpired by love, or nature, or some self-indulgent subject that a writer decides to expound on. Anybody can compose a poetry, but few are good at it because unless a poem makes language sing, then it's just a maze of words. | ||
| Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 1075 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A |
I Asked for Water and She Gave Me Gasoline-- I found this interview with Quincy Troupe in the latest issue of American Poetry Review where he makes some good general observations about Poetry http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3692/is_200503/ai_n11849443/pg_1 | ||
| Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 87 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
I was curious about this so I did a quick search of digital diss index. Hard to tell if the PhDs are Black, but I'm making big assumptions based on topic, names, university, etc. A few interesting recent ones I came up with: (1) 'The hearts of the people': Sterling Allen Brown and the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, 1936--1940 by Cole-Leonard, Natasha Rene', PhD HOWARD UNIVERSITY, 2004, 209 pages AAT 3147528 (2) The new Black poetry: Its origins, poetics, technical production, and criticism by Rambsy, Howard, II, PhD THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2004, 335 pages AAT 3140073 (3) To bear the 'slave's heavy cross': Religion and the jeremiadic tradition as literary and social constructions in African-American protest, 1760--1865 (David Howard-Pitney, Wilson Jeremiah Moses) by Harrell, Willie Jake, Jr., PhD WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003, 247 pages AAT 3086432 (4) The literature of the blues and black cultural studies by Evans, Howell, PhD UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, 2004, 118 pages AAT 3145908 (5) 'Chitlins con carne': Cross-cultural connections in Afro-Latino/a literature by Mills, Fiona Clare, PhD THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, 2003, 278 pages AAT 3086583 (6) Authenticating voices: Performance, black identity, and slam poetry by Somers-Willett, Susan B. Anthony, PhD THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 2003, 210 pages AAT 3116192 (7) Gwendolyn Brooks: The need for a new aesthetic in post-1967 America by Wilkinson, Gretna Agatha, PhD DREW UNIVERSITY, 2002, 114 pages AAT 3048026 (8) Reclaiming the classics. The emancipatory strategy of selected African American women poets: Phillis Wheatley, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, and Gwendolyn Brooks by Walters, Tracey Lorraine, PhD HOWARD UNIVERSITY, 1999, 186 pages AAT 9966748 | ||
| Ancestry Newbie Poster Username: Ancestry Post Number: 19 Registered: 02-2005 Rating: N/A |
Go to a good college, university, and/or public library, and use a database called Dissertation Abstracts. The database should provide you with many disserations about black poets...it is even possible that the very college and university you use may MA theses and Ph.d disserations...good luck! | ||
| Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 1077 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: |
Ah, hoist on my own petard. I had berated Cynique for lack of exactitude-- Thank you for your efforts, one and all--but I had overlooked that dissertation has a meaning all its own-- I am not really looking for a dissertation, but a learned essay by a famous African American poet of the type Edgar Allan Poe wrote, "The Poetic Principle" http://www.underthesun.cc/Classics/Poe/PoeticPrincipleThe/PoeticPrincipleThe2.ht ml | ||
| Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 88 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: |
Oh. As a current PhD student who is "ABD" (All [requirements complete] but [the] dissertation) dissertation has only one looming meaning for me... Anyway, good luck! | ||
| Ancestry Newbie Poster Username: Ancestry Post Number: 25 Registered: 02-2005 Rating: N/A |
i'd suggest that you look at the introductions of a few anthologies....you could even look at some of the pieces by DuBois and others on the Harlem Renaissance...now, don't ask me where it is, but I remember reading this stuff decades ago... |
