Olio

Resource Information

The work Olio represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Olio

Statement of responsibility

Tyehimba Jess

Creator

• Jess, Tyehimba

Author

• Jess, Tyehimba

Subject

• African American entertainers
• African American entertainers -- 19th century -- Poetry
• African Americans -- Social life and customs
• African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Poetry
• African Americans in the performing arts
• African Americans in the performing arts -- 19th century -- Poetry
• African Americans in the performing arts -- 20th century -- Poetry
• American Civil War (1861-1865)
• trueAmerican poetry
• History
• Poetry
• Poetry
• United States
• trueUnited States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Poetry
• World War (1914-1918)
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, African American -- Poetry
• Military participation -- African American
• 1800-1999

Genre

• trueHistory
• truePoetry
• American poetry

Language

eng

Summary

"Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them,"--Amazon.com

Member of

• Poems., Selections

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

811/.6

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction