Rita Dove
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'Thomas y Beulah', de la laureada Rita Dove, es un libro de poesía que, a diferencia de la mayoría de los poemarios contemporáneos, exige una lectura «en secuencia», como una narración en verso. Los poemas relatan en sendas partes las vidas de una pareja afroestadounidense de 1900 a 1969 y constituyen una muestra del interés de Dove por «el individuo atrapado en la telaraña de la Historia», es decir, por las cuestiones de género, raza y...
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The Darker Face of the Earth, a play by the poet laureate of the United States, creates a human drama of classical proportions. Behind the facade of antebellum Southern plantation life unfolds a mysterious tale of interracial love and strife, guilt and suffering, as both slave and master struggle against a fate that threatens to eclipse them altogether.
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In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, completed a series of 60 small tempera paintings with text captions about the Great Migration, the mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 1915-16. Within months of its making, the Migration Series was divided between The Museum of Modern Art (even-numbered panels) and the Phillips Memorial Gallery (odd-numbered panels). The work has since become a landmark...