Slam Poetry- A link between black feminism and oral poetry traditions

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Slam Poetry- A link between black feminism and oral poetry traditions

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Slam poetry is a recently emerged genre in the West that has gained critical and popular attention during the last three decades. Today, universities and poetry groups across the world have slam poetry competitions. Africa and African black population has a rich tradition, especially in oral poetry though it was shunned away as a less evolved and less sophisticated genre by modern literary circles. When slam poetry, a performance oriented oral poetry gathers momentum, it is worthwhile investi...

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Research paper

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2017

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George, Anna

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14522

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African culture / Africa / Black women / oral poetry / slam / poetry

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