1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463214603321

Autore

Phelps Carmen L

Titolo

Visionary women writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement [[electronic resource] /] / Carmen L. Phelps

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2013

ISBN

1-62103-917-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 p.)

Collana

Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Disciplina

810.9/928708996073

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

African American women authors

Black Arts movement

African American arts - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction: The Black Arts Movement: Let Me Count the Ways; Chapter One: Dysfunctional Functionality: Collaboration at Its Best in the Black Arts Era; Chapter Two: Women Writing Kinship in Chicago's Black Arts Movement; Chapter Three: Mirrors of Deception: Invisible, Untouchable, Beautiful Blackness in Johari Amini's Black Art; Chapter Four: Muddying Clear Waters: Carolyn Rodgers's Black Art; Chapter Five: Building a Home, Building a Nation: Family in the City and Beyond in Angela Jackson's Black Art

Chapter Six: Mixing Metaphors: Spirituality, Environmentalism, and Dystopia in Carolyn Rodgers's and Angela Jackson's Postrace Black ArtConclusion: You Remind Me . . . "Post-BAM/Soul" Reflections; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X

Sommario/riassunto

A disproportionate number of male writers, including such figures as Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Maulana Karenga, and Haki Madhubuti, continue to be credited for constructing the iconic and ideological foundations for what would be perpetuated as the Black Art Movement. Though there has arisen an increasing amount of scholarship that



recognizes leading women artists, activists, and leaders of this period, these new perspectives have yet to recognize adequately the ways women aspired to far more than a mere dismantling of male-oriented ideals.     In Visionary Women Writers of Chic