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Prahlad, Anand

Identifier
NFAI.E.00006641
Preferred Name
Prahlad, Anand
Library of Congress Naming Authority
Prahlad, Anand [info:lc/authorities/names/n96001289]
Entity Date
after 1954
Biography/History

Anand Prahlad teaches creative writing, folklore, Africana literature, and film studies. He specializes in contemporary poetry, folkloristics, and culture studies of the African Diaspora. His research and creative interests include poetry of the body, the convergence of popular and classical forms, the proverb and speech performances, and theories of race and gender. He is the author of Hear My Story and Other Poems and has published widely in American poetry journals. In addition to his poems, he has published two critical books, African American Proverbs in Context (University Press of Mississippi, 1996) and Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music (University Press of Mississippi, 2001), and numerous articles on topics in folkloristics, literature and culure studies.

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