A Black Arts Poetry Machine

Author : David Grundy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350061989

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A Black Arts Poetry Machine by David Grundy Pdf

A vital hub of poetry readings, performance, publications and radical politics in 1960s New York, the Umbra Workshop was a cornerstone of the African American avant-garde. Bringing together new archival research and detailed close readings of poetry, A Black Arts Poetry Machine is a groundbreaking study of this important but neglected group of poets. David Grundy explores the work of such poets as Amiri Baraka, Lorenzo Thomas and Calvin Hernton and how their innovative poetic forms engaged with radical political responses to state violence and urban insurrection. Through this examination, the book highlights the continuing relevance of the work of the Umbra Workshop today and is essential reading for anyone interested in 20th-century American poetry.

Author : David Grundy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350061972

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A Black Arts Poetry Machine by David Grundy Pdf

A vital hub of poetry readings, performance, publications and radical politics in 1960s New York, the Umbra Workshop was a cornerstone of the African American avant-garde. Bringing together new archival research and detailed close readings of poetry, A Black Arts Poetry Machine is a groundbreaking study of this important but neglected group of poets. David Grundy explores the work of such poets as Amiri Baraka, Lorenzo Thomas and Calvin Hernton and how their innovative poetic forms engaged with radical political responses to state violence and urban insurrection. Through this examination, the book highlights the continuing relevance of the work of the Umbra Workshop today and is essential reading for anyone interested in 20th-century American poetry.

Author : Useni Eugene Perkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : African American poets
ISBN : 1933491132

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Poetry from the Masters by Useni Eugene Perkins Pdf

Includes selected poems by fifteen African- American poets with brief introduction to each writer's life and works.

Author : Lisa Gail Collins,Margo Natalie Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813536958

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New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement by Lisa Gail Collins,Margo Natalie Crawford Pdf

During the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art. This charged chapter in the history of African American culture—which came to be known as the Black Arts Movement—has remained largely neglected by subsequent generations of critics. New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement includes essays that reexamine well-known figures such as Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, Betye Saar, Jeff Donaldson, and Haki Madhubuti. In addition, the anthology expands the scope of the movement by offering essays that explore the racial and sexual politics of the era, links with other period cultural movements, the arts in prison, the role of Black colleges and universities, gender politics and the rise of feminism, color fetishism, photography, music, and more. An invigorating look at a movement that has long begged for reexamination, this collection lucidly interprets the complex debates that surround this tumultuous era and demonstrates that the celebration of this movement need not be separated from its critique.

Author : Sarah RudeWalker
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820361994

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Revolutionary Poetics by Sarah RudeWalker Pdf

In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rhetorical poetics—in what forms, to what audiences, and to what effect. BAM has had far-reaching influence, particularly in developments in positive conceptions of Blackness, in the valorization of Black language practices and its subsequent effects on educational policy, in establishing a legacy of populist dissemination of African American vernacular culture, and in setting the groundwork for important considerations of the aesthetic intersections of race with gender and sexuality. These legacies stand as the movement’s primary—and largely unacknowledged—successes, and they provide significant lessons for navigating our current political moment. RudeWalker presents rhetorical readings of the work of BAM poets (including, among others, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Burroughs, Sarah Webster Fabio, Nikki Giovanni, Etheridge Knight, Audre Lorde, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers, Sonia Sanchez, and the Last Poets) in order to demonstrate the various strands of rhetorical influence that contributed to the Black Arts project and the significant legacies these writers left behind. Her investigation of the rhetorical impact of Black Arts poetry allows her to deal realistically with the movement’s problematic aspects, while still devoting thoughtful scholarly attention to the successful legacy of BAM writers and the ways their work can continue to shape contemporary rhetorical activism.

Author : Howard Rambsy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472035687

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The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry by Howard Rambsy Pdf

Devoted chiefly to the period from 1965-1976.

Author : Julius Eric Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015071135639

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Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit, 1960-1995 by Julius Eric Thompson Pdf

In 1965 Dudley F. Randall founded the Broadside Press, a company devoted to publishing, distributing and promoting the works of black poets and writers. In so doing, he became a major player in the civil rights movement. Hundreds of black writers were given an outlet for their work and for their calls for equality and black identity. Though Broadside was established on a minimal budget, Randalls unique skills made the press successful. He was trained as a librarian and had spent decades studying and writing poetry; most importantly, Randall was totally committed to the advancement of black literature. The famous and relatively unknown sought out Broadside, including such writers as Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker, Mae Jackson, Lance Jeffers, Etheridge Knight, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Audre Lorde and Sterling D. Plumpp. His story is one of battling to promote black identity and equality through literature, and thus lifting the cultural lives of all Americans.

Author : James Edward Smethurst,John H. Bracey,Sonia Sanchez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1613762763

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SOS-Calling All Black People by James Edward Smethurst,John H. Bracey,Sonia Sanchez Pdf

Author : Daniel Kane
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520233843

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All Poets Welcome by Daniel Kane Pdf

Together with its accompanying CD, this text captures the excitement of the vibrant, irreverent poetry scene of New York's Lower East Side in the 1960s. The text draws from personal interviews with many of the participants, from unpublished letters and from rare sound recordings.

Author : David Grundy
Publisher : Pamenar Press
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781915341075

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Present Continuous by David Grundy Pdf

'Present Continuous' is a collection of hybrid essays, written during the recent covid pandemic, moving between criticism and poetic prose, between visual and textual expressions of the present moment and a future that still has a past to resolve. From the initial announcement of the lockdown to Black Lives Matter protests to a “second wave” of restrictions and the issue of police violence, Grundy’s writing offers, in the words of Richard Owens, “a quality, a shade of incredible intelligence and intuitive imagining that cannot be reproduced”. "The world in art and poetry will begin with a world anew", commented the late musician and poet Henry Grimes. In these "expositions of harmony and theory", David Grundy strives to imagine that new world.

Author : Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521555264

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Black Chant by Aldon Lynn Nielsen Pdf

A study of postmodernism and African-American poets.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : African American arts
ISBN : UVA:X002510347

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African American Review by Anonim Pdf

As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association of America, African American review promotes an exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives of African American literature and culture.

Author : David Grundy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9491780093

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Five Essays from Present Continuous by David Grundy Pdf

The five essays printed here are excerpted from Part I of PRESENT CONTINUOUS, a book of prose written during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic between March 2020 and April 2021 in Lewisham, London. The essays in the present volume were written between March 2020 and June 2020: the movement from spring to summer, from the first announcement of a national lockdown to the Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in the United States and the death of Belly Mujinga in the UK. Nearly two years on, following a seemingly endless series of virus variants and subvariants, an apparent shift from pandemic to endemic, and a kind of exhaustion of vocabulary and will, I hope they provide some sort of record, not just of where 'we' were in 2020, but where 'we' are--or might be--now. Literary Nonfiction. Essays. African & African American Studies.

Author : David Grundy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197654842

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Never by Itself Alone by David Grundy Pdf

Through its comprehensive history of post-war queer writing in Boston and San Francisco from the 1940s through the 21st century, Never By Itself Alone provides a new view of queer history. Grundy intertwines analysis of lesbian, gay, and queer literature of the time, centering voices which have not yet before been explored in existing criticism. The book elevates the underrepresented work of writers of color and those with gender-nonconforming identities, underscores the link between activism and literature, and insists upon the vital importance of radical accounts of race, class and gender in any queer studies worthy of the name

Author : Margo Natalie Crawford
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252041003

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Black Post-Blackness by Margo Natalie Crawford Pdf

A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine new types of blackness. Margo Natalie Crawford argues that we have misread the Black Arts Movement's call for blackness. We have failed to see the movement's anticipation of the "new black" and "post-black." Black Post-Blackness compares the black avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s Black Arts Movement with the most innovative spins of twenty-first century black aesthetics. Crawford zooms in on the 1970s second wave of the Black Arts Movement and shows the connections between this final wave of the Black Arts movement and the early years of twenty-first century black aesthetics. She uncovers the circle of black post-blackness that pivots on the power of anticipation, abstraction, mixed media, the global South, satire, public interiority, and the fantastic.