The Black Arts Movement : literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s / James Edward Smethurst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smethurst, James Edward.

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

Black nationalism--United States--History--20th century.

Black nationalism.

United States.

History.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans in literature.

Black nationalism in literature.

Black Arts movement.

Physical Description:

xv, 471 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]

Contents:

Foreground and underground : the Left, nationalism, and the origins of the Black arts matrix

Artists imagine the nation, the nation imagines art : the Black Arts Movement and popular culture, history, gender, performance, and textuality

New York altar city : New York, the Northeast, and the development of Black arts cadres and ideologies

Institutions for the people : Chicago, Detroit, and the Black Arts Movement

In the Midwest

Bandung world : the West Coast, the Black Arts Movement, and the development of revolutionary nationalism, cultural nationalism, third worldism, and multiculturalism

Behold the land : regionalism, the Black nation, and the Black Arts Movement in the South.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [429]-458) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

080782934X

0807855987

OCLC:

57002162