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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smethurst, James Edward.

Series:

John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.

John Hope Franklin Series in African American History & Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans.

African Americans in literature.

American literature.

Black Arts movement.

Black nationalism.

Black nationalism in literature.

Literature.

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

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

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

Local Subjects:

African Americans.

African Americans in literature.

American literature.

Black Arts movement.

Black nationalism.

Black nationalism in literature.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (488 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it influenced the production and reception of literature and art in the US. The Movement, he argues, changed American attitudes to the relationship between popular culture and "high" art and transformed public funding for the arts.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Foreground and Underground: The Left, Nationalism, and the Origins of the Black Arts Matrix; 2. Artists Imagine the Nation, the Nation Imagines Art: The Black Arts Movement and Popular Culture, History, Gender, Performance, and Textuality; 3. New York Altar City: New York, the Northeast, and the Development of Black Arts Cadres and Ideologies; 4. Institutions for the People: Chicago, Detroit, and the Black Arts Movement in the Midwest

5. Bandung World: The West Coast, the Black Arts Movement, and the Development of Revolutionary Nationalism, Cultural Nationalism, Third Worldism, and Multiculturalism6. Behold the Land: Regionalism, the Black Nation, and the Black Arts Movement in the South; Conclusion; APPENDIX 1. Birth Dates of Selected Black Arts and Black Power Figures; APPENDIX 2. Time Line of the Early Black Arts and Black Power Movements; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798890876584

9780807876503

080787650X

OCLC:

476237519