Writing Themselves into the Movement : Child Authors of the Black Arts Era.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fish, Amy.

Series:

Childhoods: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Youth Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black Arts movement.

African American children's writings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2024.

Summary:

Between 1967 and 1972, a previously obscure group of authors entered the US cultural spotlight.During this five-year period, at least thirty anthologies of poetry and prose by African American, Latinx, Asian American, and Native American children came out of adult-led workshops, classrooms, and sites of juvenile incarceration.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Youth Writing Movement

Chapter 1: Poetic Self-Witness: Second-Person Plays in the Voice of the Children

Chapter 2: Telling Time: Anti-Racist Temporalities in the Classroom

Chapter 3: Agency in Absentia: The Me Nobody Knows Onstage

Chapter 4: "Criticism Is Out of the Question": The Adult Reception of Children's Writing

Epilogue: The Long Walks of Youth Writing

Notes

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781685750978

1685750974

OCLC:

1454586129