Between the Lines: Literary Transnationalism and African American Poetics by Mon

by Monique-Adelle Callahan

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Between the Lines by Monique-Adelle Callahan Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Through a close readings of three prolific poets, Between the Lines challenges traditional literary canons and presents an African American poetry of the Americas, one that defies national and linguistic boundaries in an effort to articulate the complex relationship between slavery and freedom in the history of the Western Hemisphere. Publisher Description Between the Lines examines the role of three women poets of African descent--Frances Harper, Cristina Ayala, and Auta de Souza--in shaping the literary history of the Americas. Despite their different geographic locations, each shared common concerns and wrestled in their works with the sociopolitical predicaments of the late nineteenth century. Their verse vigorously examined slavery and confronted the existential struggle against boundaries imposed byrace, nation, and gender. The writers each conceived of the poem as a dynamic forum where new concepts of individual and collective freedoms could be imagined. In their work readersencounter the poem as a site of cross-cultural exchange, a literary space in which the boundaries of nation can be redefined. Between the Lines places national poetics in a global economy of identities, histories and languages. It looks to poetry to demonstrate how people translate from one cultural or linguistic arena to another, how literary expression writes identit

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2011
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780199743063
• Condition: Fine

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