| Description |
ix, 406 pages ; 24 cm. |
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| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
On Gwendolyn Brooks / Mildred R. Mickle -- Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks / Charles M. Israel, William T. Lawlor -- The Paris review perspective / Jascha Hoffman -- The historical and social context of Gwendolyn Brooks's poetry / Kathy Rugoff -- The critical reception and influence of Gwendolyn Brooks / Martin Kich -- Gwendolyn Brooks and the epic tradition / Matthew J. Bolton -- Close reading as an approach to Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock" / Robert C. Evans -- Sweet bombs / Danielle Chapman -- The satisfactions of what's difficult in Gwendolyn Brooks's poetry / Brooke Kenton Horvath -- Double consciousness, modernism, and womanist themes in Gwendolyn Brooks's "The anniad" / A. Yemisi Jimoh -- Heralding the clear obscure: Gwendolyn Brooks and apostrophe / Lesley Wheeler -- Dialectics of desire: war and the resistive voice in Gwendolyn Brooks's "Negro hero" and "Gay chaps at the bar" / Ann Folwell Stanford -- "A material collapse that is construction": history and counter-memory in Gwendolyn Brooks In the Mecca / John Lowney -- A prophet overheard: a juxtapositional reading of Gwendolyn Brooks's "In the Mecca" / Sheila Hassell Hughes -- "My newish voice": rethinking Black power in Gwendolyn Brooks's Whirlwind / Raymond Malewitz -- Signifying Afrika: Gwendolyn Brooks's later poetry / Annette Debo -- Reflecting violence in the warpland: Gwendolyn Brooks's Riot / Annette Debo -- Killing John Cabot and publishing Black: Gwendolyn Brooks's Riot / James D. Sullivan -- "The kindergarten of new consciousness": Gwendolyn Brooks and the social construction of childhood / Richard Flynn. |
| Summary |
"The essays in this volume pay tribute to Gwendolyn Brooks's legacy. They explore Brooks's sustained dialectic with American historical events such as World War II and the Civil Rights movement, the cultural complexities of racial segregation, major movements in black letters such as the Black Arts movement, modernist ideas promoting individuality and exploring the feelings associated with loneliness, rejection of the status quo in society, open critique of history and its chroniclers, and revisions of traditional literary forms, such as the epic and the sonnet, as a means to incorporate a neglected black experience and contribution into American history and letters."--About this volume. |
| Subject |
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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African American women authors.
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Poets, American. (OCoLC)fst01067794
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African American women authors. (OCoLC)fst00799477
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism. (OCoLC)fst01986215
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Literary criticism.
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| Added Author |
Mickle, Mildred R., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781587656323 (alk. paper) |
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1587656329 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
40017325486 |
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