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Olio
Title:
Olio
JLCTITLE245:
Tyehimba Jess.
Personal Author:
Jess, Tyehimba, author.
Uniform Title:
Poems. Selections
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Seattle : Wave Books, [2016]
Physical Description:
235 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
ISBN:
9781940696225

9781940696201
Abstract:
"Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them,"--Amazon.com.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-230).
Conference Subject:
American Civil War (1861-1865).

World War (1914-1918).
Subject Term:
African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Poetry.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, African American -- Poetry.

African Americans in the performing arts -- 19th century -- Poetry.

African Americans in the performing arts -- 20th century -- Poetry.

African American entertainers -- 19th century -- Poetry.
Geographic Term:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Poetry.
Genre:
American poetry -- African American authors.

American poetry -- 21st century.

Poetry.
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