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"After Mecca": Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement
Cheryl Clarke
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Description for "After Mecca": Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement
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The politics and music of the sixties and early seventies have been the subject of scholarship for many years, but it is only very recently that attention has turned to the cultural production of African American poets.
In "After Mecca," Cheryl Clarke explores the relationship between the Black Arts Movement and black women writers of the period. Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Alice Walker, and others chart the emergence of a new and distinct black poetry and its relationship to the black community's struggle for rights and liberation. Clarke also ... Read more
The politics and music of the sixties and early seventies have been the subject of scholarship for many years, but it is only very recently that attention has turned to the cultural production of African American poets.
In "After Mecca," Cheryl Clarke explores the relationship between the Black Arts Movement and black women writers of the period. Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Alice Walker, and others chart the emergence of a new and distinct black poetry and its relationship to the black community's struggle for rights and liberation. Clarke also ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813534060
SKU
V9780813534060
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About Cheryl Clarke
Cheryl Clarke is the author of four books of poetry: Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women, Living as a Lesbian, Humid Pitch, and Experimental Love. In addition,
Reviews for "After Mecca": Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement
This is the only book-length treatment of Black women poets of the Black Arts Movement, their contributions to the development of feminism and lesbian-feminism, and their impact on the poets who succeeded them. Clarke has the advantage of being an "insider" who witnessed part of the era she's analyzing.
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Spelman College, co-author of Gender Talk
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Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Spelman College, co-author of Gender Talk
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