Wayde Compton and the African-Canadian background of his work - On Black-Canadian Literature, Hip Hop aesthetics and avantgardistic black poetry - Softcover

Eder, Katharina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3640915437 ISBN 13: 9783640915439

Verlag: GRIN Verlag, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: The following paper is concerned with the artist Wayde Compton and the African-Canadian background of his work. In the beginning, Compton´s life as well as some insights into the historical and socio-cultural background that characterize the author´s life and his works will be described. A discussion on Compton´s view on topics such as Black Englishes, Hip Hop oralities and Turntable Pluralities follows, after which the paper will provide some information on the poetry collection Performance Bond as well as other works by Wayde Compton. After an explanation concering the field of „Hip Hop aesthetics" as well as a discussion of Compton´s poem „Declaration of the Halfrican Nation", the paper concludes with a presentation of „mixed-race" or „hyphenated" writers and their work aside from Wayde Compton.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: GRIN Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3640915437
• ISBN 13: 9783640915439
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 56
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