{"product_id":"the-african-american-sonnet-a-literary-history-9781496828217","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?ller 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?ller 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimo Müller\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of American studies at the University of Konstanz. He is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Self as Object in Modernist Fiction: James, Joyce, Hemingway\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eEnglish and American Studies: Theory and Practice\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePoem Unlimited: New Perspectives on Poetry and Genre\u003c\/i\u003e. He has published articles in various English and German journals, including \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArizona Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTwentieth-Century Literature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50434728427794,"sku":"9781496828217","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_01429e7b-5491-4e5d-83da-fa31f910c99b.jpg?v=1729608344","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-african-american-sonnet-a-literary-history-9781496828217","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}