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Recalling Recitation in the Americas focuses on the unexplored relationship between education history and literary form and establishes the far-reaching effects of poetry memorization and recitation on the development of modern performance poetry in North America.

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Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) and Her "Dear Dead Longfellow" Chapter 2 Langston Hughes’s Rhythmic Literacy Chapter 3 Miss Lou Pedagogy and Mimic Women Chapter 4 Recitation Legacies in Dub and Indigenous Poetics Notes Permissions Works Cited

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: 12/12/2017
      ISBN13: 9781487501839, 978-1487501839
      ISBN10: 1487501838

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Recalling Recitation in the Americas focuses on the unexplored relationship between education history and literary form and establishes the far-reaching effects of poetry memorization and recitation on the development of modern performance poetry in North America.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) and Her "Dear Dead Longfellow" Chapter 2 Langston Hughes’s Rhythmic Literacy Chapter 3 Miss Lou Pedagogy and Mimic Women Chapter 4 Recitation Legacies in Dub and Indigenous Poetics Notes Permissions Works Cited

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