Gwendolyn Brooks
"The essays in this volume pay tribute to Gwendolyn Brooks's legacy. They explore Brooks's sustained dialectic with American historical events such as World War II and the Civil Rights movement, the cultural complexities of racial segregation, major movements in black letters such as the Black Arts movement, modernist ideas promoting individuality and exploring the feelings associated with loneliness, rejection of the status quo in society, open critique of history and its chroniclers, and revi…
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- Full title :Gwendolyn Brooks / editor, Mildred R. Mickle.
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"The essays in this volume pay tribute to Gwendolyn Brooks's legacy. They explore Brooks's sustained dialectic with American historical events such as World War II and the Civil Rights movement, the cultural complexities of racial segregation, major movements in black letters such as the Black Arts movement, modernist ideas promoting individuality and exploring the feelings associated with loneliness, rejection of the status quo in society, open critique of history and its chroniclers, and revisions of traditional literary forms, such as the epic and the sonnet, as a means to incorporate a neglected black experience and contribution into American history and letters."--About this volume
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- Publication Date:©2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Salem Press
- Place of Publication:Pasadena, Calif
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (ix, 406 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781587656330, 1587656337
- oclc:ocn719371209
- LC Classification:PS3503.R7244
- Dewey Decimal:811/.54
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