Afro-American Poetics

Now available in paperback, this ambitious book juxtaposes two of the most fertile periods of African American culture, the 1920`s and the 1960`s; it includes essays on Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, and Hoyt Fuller. This is also Baker`s most personal book, tracing his beginnings as a scholar of Victorian literature, his `second birth` as he began teaching African American Literature, and his visions and revisions of a black aesthetic. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.