{"product_id":"the-african-american-sonnet-9781496828217","title":"The African American Sonnet","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome of the best known African American poems are sonnets: Claude McKay's 'If We Must Die,' Countee Cullen's 'Yet Do I Marvel,' Gwendolyn Brooks's 'First fight. Then fiddle.' Yet few readers realize that these poems are part of a rich tradition that formed after the Civil War and comprises more than a thousand sonnets by African American poets. Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, and Rita Dove all wrote sonnets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on extensive archival research, The African American Sonnet: A Literary History traces this forgotten tradition from the nineteenth century to the present. Timo Müller uses sonnets to open up fresh perspectives on African American literary history. He examines the struggle over the legacy of the Civil War, the trajectories of Harlem Renaissance protest, the tensions between folk art and transnational perspectives in the thirties, the vernacular modernism of the postwar period, the cultural nationalism of the Black\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195296903511,"sku":"9781496828217","price":26.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496828217.jpg?v=1763647076","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-african-american-sonnet-9781496828217","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}