SOURCE: "Refusing to be Boxed In: Sonia Sanchez's Transformation of the Haiku Form," in Language and Literature in the African American Imagination, edited by Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay, Greenwood Press, 1992, pp. 21-36.
In the following essay, De Lancey asserts that "As [Sanchez textualizes the form, forging her Afrocentric vision and Afrocentric structure within the discipline of the haiku form, she moves closer to a unique structure that carries her own signature."]
This is a free excerpt of 70 words. There are 4,914 words (approx.
16 pages at 300 words per page) in the full critical essay.
Read the rest of this Criticism with our Sonia Sanchez: Critical Essay by Frenzella Elaine De Lancey Access Pass.
