Killing Poetry // Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities
Javon Johnson • Rutgers University Press • ISBN-13 978‑0813580012
Killing Poetry // Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities
Javon Johnson • Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10: 0813580013 · ISBN-13: 978‑0813580012 · 2017
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Javon Johnson provides an ethnographic examination of slam and spoken word communities, exploring how these performance spaces function as sites for social transformation. By situating contemporary Black poets within broader literary traditions, the book interrogates the radical potential of performance poetry to foster new social relationships and challenge existing power structures.
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