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The black arts enterprise and the production of African American poetry / Howard Rambsy II.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rambsy, Howard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--African American authors.
- Poetry--Publishing--United States--History--20th century.
- Poetry.
- African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- Black Arts movement.
- African Americans in literature.
- Poetry--Publishing.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (199 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2013, 2011.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which the Black Arts Movement's poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers, and others) operated and of the small presses and literary anthologies that first published the movement's authors. The book also describes the role of the Black Arts Movement in reintroducing readers to poets such as Langston Hughes, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker, and Phillis Wheatley. Focusing on the material production of Black Arts poetry, the book combines genetic criticism with cultural history to shed new light on the period, its publishing culture, and the writing and editing practices of its participants. Howard Rambsy II demonstrates how significant circulation and format of black poetic texts-not simply their content-were to the formation of an artistic movement. The book goes on to examine other significant influences on the formation of Black Arts discourse, including such factors as an emerging nationalist ideology and figures such as John Coltrane and Malcolm X. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Getting Poets on the Same Page: The Roles of Periodicals 17
- 2 Platforms for Black Verse: The Roles of Anthologies 49
- 3 Understanding the Production of Black Arts Texts 77
- 4 All Aboard the Malcolm-Coltrane Express 101
- 5 The Poets, Critics, and Theorists Are One 125
- 6 The Revolution Will Not Be Anthologized 149.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472117338
- 9780472035687
- 9780472120055
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.1798608
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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