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Publication Date: 1992
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Claude McKay: Black Protest in Western Traditional Form.
Hudson-Weems, Clenora
Western Journal of Black Studies, v16 n1 p1-5 Spr 1992
The protest poetry of Claude McKay, a leading writer of the Harlem Renaissance, is couched in the Western sonnet form. How the poetic form supports or conflicts with the messages of African-American pride and contempt for racism is examined. (SLD)
Descriptors: Activism, Black Culture, Blacks, Creative Writing, Literary Styles, Lyric Poetry, Poets, Racial Discrimination, Sonnets, Traditionalism
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Language: English
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