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Format:

Book

Title:

Shimmy shimmy shimmy like my sister Kate : looking at the Harlem Renaissance through poems / [edited by] Nikki Giovanni.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher, Date:

New York : H. Holt, 1996.

Description:

xii, 186 pages ; 22 cm

Summary:

Includes poems by such authors as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Amiri Baraka, with commentary and a discussion of the development of African American arts known as the Harlem Renaissance.

Subjects:

Young adult poetry, American.

American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism.

American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.

American poetry -- 20th century.

African Americans in literature.

African Americans -- Poetry.

Harlem Renaissance.

Genre:

Poetry.

Other Author:

Giovanni, Nikki.

Notes:

Includes poems by such authors as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Amiri Baraka, with commentary and a discussion of the development of African American arts known as the Harlem Renaissance.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

W.E.B. Du Bois -- James Weldon Johnson -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Claude McKay -- Melvin B. Tolson -- Langston Hughes -- Arna Bontemps -- Countee Cullen -- Helene Johnson -- Waring Cuney -- Richard Wright -- Robert Hayden -- Margaret Walker -- Samuel Allen -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Lance Jeffers -- LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka -- Sonia Sanchez -- Ishmael Reed -- James Randall, Jr. -- Nikki Giovanni -- Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Ntozake Shange.

Web Site:

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

LCCN:

95038617

ISBN:

0805034943

9780805034943

Other Number:

33103116

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

46384

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

811.08 Shimmy s