{"product_id":"african-american-sonnet-timo-muller-9781496817839","title":"The African American Sonnet: A Literary History","description":"Some 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on extensive archival research, \u003ci\u003eThe African American Sonnet: A Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e traces this forgotten tradition from the nineteenth century to the present. Timo M?ler 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 Arts movement, and disruptive strategies of recent experimental poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this book, M?ler examines the inventive strategies African American poets devised to occupy and reshape a form overwhelmingly associated with Europe. In the tightly circumscribed space of sonnets, these poets mounted evocative challenges to the discursive and material boundaries they confronted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timo M?ler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496817834\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496817839\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/02\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Timo M?ler","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054806036735,"sku":"9781496817839","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5eb47f29-8c19-41b2-9d57-e2c3e7f45e69.jpg?v=1685032102","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/african-american-sonnet-timo-muller-9781496817839","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}