English 216 - Introduction to Literary Study:Black Poetry of the Americas

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Colgate University

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M. Stephens A consideration of poetic form as a central staging ground for exploring what black American poets have inherited from African and European poetic traditions, and what new lyrical modes emerge from the specific landscapes and soundscapes of the New World. This course studies the intimate relation between sounds and words, music and rhetoric, figures of speech and song, and writing and performance. Poets include: Phillis Wheatley, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, Derek Walcott, Robert Hayden and Elizabeth Alexander. II. Literary History

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colgate.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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