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Article: Performing the Word: African American Poetry as Vernacular Culture.(Review)
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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Fahamisha Patricia Brown. Performing the Word: African American Poetry as Vernacular Culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1999. 174 pp. $17.00.
Fahamisha Patricia Brown's Performing the Word: African American Poetry as Vernacular Culture is compact, timely, lucid, and refreshing in concept--a book of literary criticism intended for college undergraduates. Carefully organized and written with elegant clarity, Performing the Word reveals ambitious goals. Her focus, Brown says, is
the expressive culture of people descended from Africans enslaved in that part of North America that became the United States of America. Their culture was an invention, or ...