• SARATH KRISHNA A
• Anila Elizabeth John
• Abhijith R.

: The research paper emphasizes on the aspects of racism and revolutionary ideals depicted in the works of the African American poet Nikki Giovanni. The study presents an outline of African American poetry and Giovanni as a poet, and explores the racial aspects focusing on the denial of Black individual identity. The growth of Giovanni as a black female poet by embracing the revolutionary ideals is also traced out. This identity as a black female poet is regarded as an inevitable aspect of her poetry and is used as a tool to trace the issue of gender. The paper places Giovanni as a revolutionary in the time when revolution was yet to be born. She tries to bridge the gap between the Whites and the Blacks.

: African American Poetry, Revolutionary Ideals, Black Arts Movement, Black Identity, Racism

"Poetic Revolution: A Study of Nikki Giovanni's Vogue in the Light of Select Poems", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.421-428, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903064.pdf

"Poetic Revolution: A Study of Nikki Giovanni's Vogue in the Light of Select Poems", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp421-428, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903064.pdf