Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry /

This book restores the slaves' songs to their rightful place in American literature for their intrinsic value as lyric poetry, and as a touchstone of the American imagination.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Ramey, Lauri (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:	Literature. Early Modern/Renaissance Literature. North American Literature. Oral History. Poetry and Poetics. Social History. Literature, Modern. Oral history. Poetry. Social history. America > Literatures. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book