Flashback Through the Heart
Angela M. Salas
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Description for Flashback Through the Heart
Hardback. This volume seeks to address the conundrum of reading African American poets as racial spokespeople, and to model alternative ways of addressing their work. Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
This volume seeks to address the conundrum of reading African American poets as racial spokespeople, and to model alternative ways of addressing their work. It examines Yusef Komunyakaa's literary career and his four most recent volumes of poetry. By addressing Talking Dirty to the Gods, it examines the cues Komunyakaa left for readers through its organization and themes. Other chapters discuss the civil rights movement, the Klan's presence in the Louisiana of Komunyakaa's youth, and the war in Vietnam as they appear in Komunyakaa's work. Angela M. Salas is an Adjunct Research Associate at Southeast Missouri State University.
This volume seeks to address the conundrum of reading African American poets as racial spokespeople, and to model alternative ways of addressing their work. It examines Yusef Komunyakaa's literary career and his four most recent volumes of poetry. By addressing Talking Dirty to the Gods, it examines the cues Komunyakaa left for readers through its organization and themes. Other chapters discuss the civil rights movement, the Klan's presence in the Louisiana of Komunyakaa's youth, and the war in Vietnam as they appear in Komunyakaa's work. Angela M. Salas is an Adjunct Research Associate at Southeast Missouri State University.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781575910826
SKU
V9781575910826
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99-15
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