"After Mecca" : women poets and the Black Arts Movement / Cheryl Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Cheryl, 1947-

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--African American authors.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

African American women--Intellectual life.

African American women.

United States.

History.

American poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

American poetry--Women authors.

African American women in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Black Arts movement.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 206 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2005.

Contents:

'Missed love': Black power and Black poetry

The loss of lyric space in Gwendolyn Brooks's "In the Mecca"

Queen Sistuh: Black women poets and the circle(s) of Blackness

Black feminist communalism: Ntozake Shange's For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Transferences and confluences: Black arts and Black lesbian-feminism in Audre Lorde's The black unicorn.

Notes:

"Cover design by Karolina Harris."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0813534054

0813534062

OCLC:

54906915