Rage and Passion in the Poetry of Frank Marshall Davis
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In his Introduction to J. Saunders Redding's important book, To Make a Poet Black, Henry Louis Gates provides a context for appreciating the poetry of Frank Marshall Davis. To the black writer, literature, is often a matter of survival and necessity, a literature produced to perform a political function as much as, if not more than, to embody an aesthetic one. This political function has been to critique European American racism and, simultaneously, to demonstrate the intellectual capacity of all people through the agency of the artistic products of the writer, who becomes a voice of the group, presuming a collective / or we (Gates 1988, xviii). Blacks have also sought to affirm their own humanity through writing and to provide new perspectives on themes of equality, pluralism, reconciliation, humanity, and healing in literature, at the same time triving to maintain ethnic integrity and to preserve positive cultural differences.
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In his Introduction to J. Saunders Redding's important book, To Make a Poet Black, Henry Louis Gates provides a context for appreciating the poetry of Frank Marshall Davis. To the black writer, literature, is often a matter of survival and necessity, a literature produced to perform a political function as much as, if not more than, to embody an aesthetic one. This political function has been to critique European American racism and, simultaneously, to demonstrate the intellectual capacity of all people through the agency of the artistic products of the writer, who becomes a voice of the group, presuming a collective / or we (Gates 1988, xviii). Blacks have also sought to affirm their own humanity through writing and to provide new perspectives on themes of equality, pluralism, reconciliation, humanity, and healing in literature, at the same time triving to maintain ethnic integrity and to preserve positive cultural differences.
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