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A comparative study of the poetry and politics of five poets that represent the afro voice in the literature across the Americas: Aim Cesaire, Nicols Guilln, Langston Hughes, Luis Pals Matos and Claude McKay

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Identifier	Thesis 1863
Author	Ball, Karlene N.
Title	A comparative study of the poetry and politics of five poets that represent the afro voice in the literature across the Americas: Aim Cesaire, Nicols Guilln, Langston Hughes, Luis Pals Matos and Claude McKay
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2006
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	This research represents a comparative study of the poetry and politics of the afro voice in the literature across the Americas in the post-colonial period. The works of Aim Csaire from Martinique; Nicols Guilln from Cuba; Langston Hughes from the United States; Luis Pals Matos from Puerto Rico and Claude McKay from Jamaica were presented as representative of la poesa negra. I documented in this study, the plurilingual nature of the afro voice in the literature and examined the way in which these prolific writers from the French-speaking, Spanish-speaking and English-speaking Americas gave context to the complex debate of race and class in their common cultural and historical experience in the post-colonial period. I demonstrated in this socio-literary investigation that although these writers were committed to societal change, their works were not just that of social protest. Indeed, these writers were also committed artists who employed newly developed literary techniques in relation to the beauty of Africaness: linguistically, musically, and culturally. They also followed some of the aesthetical innovations from the Modernism and Vanguardism movements. Poetry and politics in this literature enjoy a symbiotic relationship. I discussed this relationship as I analyzed the tone and language of the works; the political activities and philosophies of the writers; as well as the social, economic and political climate and environment which existed at the time of their writings. In so doing, some of the questions I raised included the following: Who are the afro voices? What effects did colonialism have on the development of the literature across the Americas? What were the ideological and philosophical tendencies of these writers? Did they write out of fear of the dissolution of their blackness in the changing sociopolitical environment or in celebration of it? What were the artistic tendencies of these writers? Would they have employed any of these tendencies in their works if the postcolonial society did not require it? Finally, what is the legacy of the afro voice to the literary field? This research documented the impact of colonialism on societies across the Americas from Havana to Harlem as it examined the works of five prolific writers who can today be considered forerunners in the literary world because of the themes and styles that they employed in their work. The research also brings to light some of the literary output of artists whose works may still be unknown and unavailable because their published material may be out of print or may not yet have been widely translated in other major languages. This study will provide students of modern language literature, an opportunity to study modern languages by learning about the works of writers outside the established European mold. In this way, it will have offered an American alternative or an American supplement to such course development. Finally, this study demonstrated that colonialism was in fact a great unifier, for out of the post-colonial period emerged an afro voice that confronted issues of race, class, human and civil rights. Since these themes are still current in our socio-political discourse today, the works of the artists analyzed remain relevant, pertinent and further, may serve as a foundation for debate by a new crop of afro voices.
Subject	Césaire, Aimé -- Criticism and interpretation Guillén, Nicolás, 1902-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation Palés Matos, Luis -- Criticism and interpretation McKay, Claude, 1890-1948 -- Criticism and interpretation African American poets
Department	Department of Modern Languages
Advisor	García-Lozada, Antonio
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713734303
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