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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817388903321

Autore

Neigh Janet

Titolo

Recalling recitation in the Americas : borderless curriculum, performance poetry, and reading / / Janet Neigh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, Canada : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

9781487514044

1-4875-1404-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 240 pages.) : illustrations

Disciplina

808.545

Soggetti

Oral interpretation of poetry

Performance poetry - Social aspects

Poetry - Social aspects

Poetry - Study and teaching

Recitation(Education) - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) and her “Dear Dead Longfellow” -- 2. Langston Hughes’s rhythmic literacy -- 3. Miss Lou pedagogy and mimic women -- 4. Recitation legacies in dub and indigenous poetics.

Sommario/riassunto

Recalling Recitation in the Americas focuses on the unexplored relationship between education history and literary form and establishes the far-reaching effects of poetry memorization and recitation on the development of modern performance poetry in North America.--