How Long to Read Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants

How Long Does it Take to Read Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 52 minutes to read Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants by Jon Woodson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In the 1930s African Americans faced three distinct historical crises that impacted the lives of African Americans directly-the Great Depression, the existential-identity crisis, and the Italo-Ethiopian War, with its threat of a race war. A sizeable body of black poetry was produced in this decade, which captured the new modes of autonomy through which black Americans resisted these social calamities. Much of it, however, including the most influential protest poems, was dismissed as "romantic" by major, leftist critics and anthologists. Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s, by Jon Woodson, uses social philology to unveil social discourse, self fashioning, and debates in poems gathered from anthologies, magazines, newspapers, and individual collections. The first chapter examines three long poems, finding overarching jeremiadic discourse that inaugurated a militant, politically aware agent. Chapter two examines self-fashioning in the numerous sonnets that responded to the new media of radio, newsreels, movies, and photo-magazines. The third chapter shows how new subjectivities were generated by poetry addressed to the threat of race war in which the white race was exterminated. The black intellectuals who dominated the interpretative discourses of the 1930s fostered exteriority, while black culture as a whole plunged into interiority. Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants delineates the struggle between these inner and outer worlds, a study made difficult by a contemporary intellectual culture which recoils from a belief in a consistent, integrated self.

How long is Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants?

Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants by Jon Woodson is 286 pages long, and a total of 73,216 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 40 minutes to read Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants aloud.

What Reading Level is Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants?

Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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