Annie Allen

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Annie Allen is a Pulitzer Prize–winning poetry collection by Gwendolyn Brooks that traces the coming-of-age and inner life of a young Black girl in Chicago.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf poetry collection
author Gwendolyn Brooks
authorEthnicity African American
authorNationality American
awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depicts coming-of-age of a young Black girl in Chicago
follows A Street in Bronzeville
form epic parody
lyric poetry
narrative poetry
genre poetry
hasPart “Appendix to the Anniad”
“Notes from the Childhood and the Girlhood”
“The Anniad”
language English
literaryMovement African American literature
surface form: African-American literature

Chicago Black Renaissance
mainCharacter Annie Allen (fictional character)
notableFor first Pulitzer Prize for Poetry awarded to an African-American author
originalPublicationYear 1949
publisher Harper & Brothers
PulitzerPrizeCategory Poetry
setIn Chicago
style formal experimentation
irony and satire
use of vernacular speech
subjectMatter Black girlhood
family and community life
love and relationships
war and its aftermath
theme class
gender
identity
inner life and psychology
race
urban Black experience in mid-20th-century America

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Gwendolyn Brooks notableWork Annie Allen
Gwendolyn notableWork Annie Allen
subject surface form: Gwendolyn Brooks
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