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The Power of the Rap

The Black Idiom and the New Black Poetry

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ID23169646
AuthorsGeneva Smitherman (corresponding author)
Year1973
Volume19
Issue4
Pages259
Publication date1973-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTwentieth Century Literature (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0041-462X • E-ISSN: 2325-8101
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/440543
OpenAlexW2046204165
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Black Arts Literature--of which the New Black Poetry is the most important manifestation-emerged during the past decade as the appropriate artistic counterpart to Black Power. Rhetoric and shouting aside, this new thrust was, on a very basic level, simply a call to Black folks to redefine Blackness and reevaluate the Black Experience. For the writer, this reassessment has culminated in a redefinition of the role of the artist and a new perspective on what constitutes Art. The creator of Black Arts Literature envisions himself as a Nec

Aesthetics · Art · Aside · Black Power · Linguistics · Literature · Perspective (graphical) · Poetry · Power (physics) · Rhetoric · The arts · Visual arts · American and British Literature Analysis · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society

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Citation span2005 - 2026 (22)
Highly citedNo

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