The Power of the Rap : The Black Idiom and the New Black Poetry / Geneva Smitherman.

Black Arts Literature--of which the New Black Poetry is the most important manifestation--emerged during the past decade as the appropriate artistic counterthrust to Black Power. Rhetoric and shouting aside, this new thrust was, on a very basic level, simply a call to black folks to redefine Blackne...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Smitherman, Geneva, 1940-
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1973.
Subjects:	Black Community. Black Dialects. Black Literature. Black Power. Black Studies. Expressive Language. Language Patterns. Language Styles. Local Color Writing. Persuasive Discourse. Poetry. Rhetoric. Urban Culture. Urban Language. Writing (Composition)
Physical Description:	22 pages
Format:	Microfilm Book