@article{800474,
      recid = {800474},
      author = {Jess, Tyehimba,},
      title = {Olio /},
      pages = {235 pages :},
      abstract = {"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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/800474},
}