Nikki Giovanni: The Princess of Black Poetry

In the 20th century when contemporary literature appeared from 1960 to the present, it was seen as a product of the situation after the Second World War. Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and was born in a black suburb of Cincinnati at Lincoln Heights. Giovanni is one of the most frequently read poets in America, her sentences are frank, giving her a lot of recognition and excellence. Giovanni has become a spokesman for many African Americans and her contribution to the literary era is a struggle for equality and the power people have to play in their own lives and in the lives of others It was reflected.

Giovanni, Nikki (Yolanda Cornelia Giovanni, Jolande Cornelia Giovanni, Junior, Jolande Cornelia Giovanni) (1943 -) The poet, essayist, editor, autobiographer, educator Nikki Giovanni first became a poet in the late 1960s and became a nationwide It became known to. One of them is the most outspoken and most influential voice from black power and black art movement. Ever since then, Giovanni has worked hard on racial discrimination and gender discrimination. "My work is the same as the work I started," Giovanni explained in the 2000 interview. "You work hard.

Nikki Giovanni is a contemporary African-American poet who has been published since the late 1960s and is considered part of the black art movements. Most of her work, especially "Black Emotion", "Black Talk", "Black Trial" poetry is out of print and covers reactions to African-American living, black feminism and ethnic oppression I will. Some poems are "Nikki Rosa", "Ego Tripping", "Saundra", "Adults", "Poem (No Name No 3)", "April's Reconsideration", April 1968.

Young black poets such as Don L. Lee (born 1942), Sonia Sanchez (born in 1934), Nikki Giovanni (born 1943) were strongly influenced by Baraka's poem experiments and extreme positions. Though these poets wrote so-called protest literature works, it is also a poetry that supports the value of black family support, the power of black women, and the need for blacks to achieve self-fulfillment. These poets, regardless of their particular position, emphasized the wording of the black people, admitted that the black poet can solve the black experience and must solve. From the ambiguity of Claude Mackay to the humanitarian protest of Gwendolin Brooks, the revolutionary battle of Sonia Sanchez, the black writer insisted on abandoning racial discrimination and its influence, dishonestly opposed dishonesty. organ