African American children's poetry : themes, issues and social context / Wynn William Yarbrough.
| Author/creator | Yarbrough, Wynn William author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2024] |
| Description | pages cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Education, Pedagogy, and "Opening the Field": African American Children's Poetry and Jazz Poetics -- Playing It Real: Identity and Nonsense Poetics -- Worryin' the Line: The Influence of the Blues -- Grit, Grace, Griottes: Representations of Femininity -- Boys to Men: Visions and Revisions of Masculinity -- Still We Rise: Representations of Work -- Into the Twenty-First Century She Goes: Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming. |
| Abstract | "This work examines African American children's poetry through a variety of lenses: jazz poetics, the blues, nonsense verse, gender, and working class studies. African American children's poetry reveals legacies of segregation, the Great Migration north, and racial and gender reckonings in United States history. Works by Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Lauryn Hill, and Wynton Marsalis reveal warnings, scenes of empowerment, and moments of remembrance for children and young adults. This is the first academic book to investigate African American children's poetry thematically across two centuries, including hip hop lyrics and jazz poetry"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| LCCN | 2024039688 |
| ISBN | 9781476695297 |
| ISBN | 1476695296 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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