A Surprised Queenhood In The New Black Sun
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A Surprised Queenhood In The New Black Sun
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Author : Angela Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2017-05-30
A Surprised Queenhood In The New Black Sun written by Angela Jackson and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A look back at the cultural and political force of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, in celebration of her hundredth birthday Artist–Rebel–Pioneer Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the great American literary icons of the twentieth century, a protégé of Langston Hughes and mentor to a generation of poets, including Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, and Elizabeth Alexander. Her poetry took inspiration from the complex portraits of black American life she observed growing up on Chicago’s Southside—a world of kitchenette apartments and vibrant streets. From the desk in her bedroom, as a child she filled countless notebooks with poetry, encouraged by the likes of Hughes and affirmed by Richard Wright, who called her work “raw and real.” Over the next sixty years, Brooks’s poetry served as witness to the stark realities of urban life: the evils of lynching, the murders of Emmett Till and Malcolm X, the revolutionary effects of the civil rights movement, and the burgeoning power of the Black Arts Movement. Critical acclaim and the distinction in 1950 as the first black person ever awarded a Pulitzer Prize helped solidify Brooks as a unique and powerful voice. Now, in A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun, fellow Chicagoan and award-winning writer Angela Jackson delves deep into the rich fabric of Brooks’s work and world. Granted unprecedented access to Brooks’s family, personal papers, and writing community, Jackson traces the literary arc of this artist’s long career and gives context for the world in which Brooks wrote and published her work. It is a powerfully intimate look at a once-in-a-lifetime talent up close, using forty-three of Brooks’s most soul-stirring poems as a guide. From trying to fit in at school (“Forgive and Forget”), to loving her physical self (“To Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals”), to marriage and motherhood (“Maud Martha”), to young men on her block (“We Real Cool”), to breaking history (“Medgar Evers”), to newfound acceptance from her community and her elevation to a “surprising queenhood” (“The Wall”), Brooks lived life through her work. Jackson deftly unpacks it all for both longtime admirers of Brooks and newcomers curious about her interior life. A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun is a commemoration of a writer who negotiated black womanhood and incomparable brilliance with a changing, restless world—an artistic maverick way ahead of her time.
Revolutionary Poetics
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Author : Sarah RudeWalker
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2023-04-15
Revolutionary Poetics written by Sarah RudeWalker and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rhetorical poetics—in what forms, to what audiences, and to what effect. BAM has had far-reaching influence, particularly in developments in positive conceptions of Blackness, in the valorization of Black language practices and its subsequent effects on educational policy, in establishing a legacy of populist dissemination of African American vernacular culture, and in setting the groundwork for important considerations of the aesthetic intersections of race with gender and sexuality. These legacies stand as the movement’s primary—and largely unacknowledged—successes, and they provide significant lessons for navigating our current political moment. RudeWalker presents rhetorical readings of the work of BAM poets (including, among others, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Burroughs, Sarah Webster Fabio, Nikki Giovanni, Etheridge Knight, Audre Lorde, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers, Sonia Sanchez, and the Last Poets) in order to demonstrate the various strands of rhetorical influence that contributed to the Black Arts project and the significant legacies these writers left behind. Her investigation of the rhetorical impact of Black Arts poetry allows her to deal realistically with the movement’s problematic aspects, while still devoting thoughtful scholarly attention to the successful legacy of BAM writers and the ways their work can continue to shape contemporary rhetorical activism.
Teaching Black
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Author : Ana-Maurine Lara
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2021-12-14
Teaching Black written by Ana-Maurine Lara and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature presents the experiences and voices of Black creative writers who are also teachers. The authors in this collection engage poetry, fiction, experimental literature, playwriting, and literary criticism. They provide historical and theoretical interventions and practical advice for teachers and students of literature and craft. Contributors work in high schools, colleges, and community settings and draw from these rich contexts in their essays. This book is an invaluable tool for teachers, practitioners, change agents, and presses. Teaching Black is for any and all who are interested in incorporating Black literature and conversations on Black literary craft into their own work.
Mississippi Poets
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Author : Catharine Savage Brosman
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2020-08-25
Mississippi Poets written by Catharine Savage Brosman and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Mississippi has produced outstanding writers in numbers far out of proportion to its population. Their contributions to American literature, including poetry, rank as enormous. Mississippi Poets: A Literary Guide showcases forty-seven poets associated with the state and assesses their work with the aim of appreciating it and its place in today’s culture. In Mississippi, the importance of poetry can no longer be doubted. It partakes, as Faulkner wrote, of the broad aim of all literature: “to uplift man’s heart.” In Mississippi Poets, author Catharine Savage Brosman introduces readers to the poets themselves, stressing their versatility and diversity. She describes their subject matter and forms, their books, and particularly representative or striking poems. Of broad interest and easy to consult, this book is both a source of information and a showcase. It highlights the organic connection between poetry by Mississippians and the indigenous music genres of the region, blues and jazz. No other state has produced such abundant and impressive poetry connected to these essential American forms. Brosman profiles and assesses poets from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Grounds for selection include connections between the poets and the state; the excellence and abundance of their work; its critical reception; and both local and national standing. Natives of Mississippi and others who have resided here draw equal consideration. As C. Liegh McInnis observed, “You do not have to be born in Mississippi to be a Mississippi writer. . . . If what happens in Mississippi has an immediate and definite effect on your work, you are a Mississippi writer.”
Mercy Mercy Me
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Author : James C. Hall
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2001
Mercy Mercy Me written by James C. Hall and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In its original account of black artistry and its recovery of overlooked works of the period, Mercy, Mercy Me marks a major contribution to our understanding of 1960s American culture."--BOOK JACKET.
The Wicked Sisters
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Author : Betsy Erkkila
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1992-12-10
The Wicked Sisters written by Betsy Erkkila and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-12-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
This provocative study of the lives and works of Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich, and Gwendolyn Brooks focuses on the historical struggles and differences among and within women writers and among feminists themselves. Erkkila explores the troubled relations women writers experienced with both masculine and feminine literary cultures, arguing that popular feminist views often romanticize and maternalize women writers and their interrelations in ways that effectively reinforce the very gender stereotypes and polarities which initially grounded women's oppression. Studying the multiple race, class, ethnic, cultural, and other locations of women within a particular social field, Erkkila offers a revisionary model of women's literary history that challenges recent feminist theory and practice along with many of our fundamental assumptions about the woman writer, women's writing, and women's literary history. In contrast to the tendency of earlier feminists to heroize literary foremothers and communities of women, Erkkila focuses on the historical struggles and conflicts that make up the history of women poets. Without discounting the historical power of sisterhood, she seeks to reclaim women's literary history as a site of contention, contingency, and ongoing struggle, rather than a separate space of untroubled and essentially cooperative accord among women. Encompassing the various historical significations of "wickedness" as destructive, powerful, playful, witty, mischievous, and not righteous, The Wicked Sisters explores the power struggles and discord that mark both the history of women poets and the history of feminist criticism.
On Gwendolyn Brooks
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Author : Stephen Caldwell Wright
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2001
On Gwendolyn Brooks written by Stephen Caldwell Wright and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A reassessment of the art and achievements of the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize
Rites Of Coherence Autobiographical Writings By Hurston Brooks Angelou And Lorde Hurston Zora Neale Brooks Gwendolyn Angelou Maya Lorde Audre African American Women Writers
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Author : Claudine Raynaud
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Rites Of Coherence Autobiographical Writings By Hurston Brooks Angelou And Lorde Hurston Zora Neale Brooks Gwendolyn Angelou Maya Lorde Audre African American Women Writers written by Claudine Raynaud and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with categories.
the poetics of the body in pain and pleasure (Angelou and Lorde).
Ebony
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973-03
Ebony written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973-03 with categories.
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
The Riverside Anthology Of Literature
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Author : Douglas Hunt
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Release Date : 1991
The Riverside Anthology Of Literature written by Douglas Hunt and has been published by Houghton Mifflin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Poetry categories.
Examples of short fiction, poetry, and drama from 102 well-known authors.
