LEADER 03871nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910779197803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-58286-4 010 $a9786613895318 010 $a0-252-09342-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000000089113 035 $a(OCoLC)783468908 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10532304 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000613183 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11381779 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000613183 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10584243 035 $a(PQKB)10578343 035 $a(OCoLC)867785779 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23655 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3413832 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10532304 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL389531 035 $a(OCoLC)923492821 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3413832 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000089113 100 $a20110801d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWriters of the Black Chicago renaissance$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Steven C. Tracy 210 $aUrbana $cUniversity of Illinois Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (535 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-252-07931-0 311 $a0-252-03639-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"This volume explores the contours and content of the Black Chicago Renaissance. A movement crafted in the crucible of rigid racial segregation in Chicago's "Black Belt" from the 1930's through the 1960's, its participants were also heavily influenced by--and influenced --the Harlem Renaissance and the Chicago Renaissance of white writers. Despite harsh segregation, black and white thinkers influenced one another particularly through their engagements with leftist organizations. In many ways, politically, racially, spatially, this was a movement invested in cross-pollination, change, and political activism, as much as literature, art, and aesthetics as it prepared the way for the literature of the Black Arts Movement and beyond. The volume begins with a look at Richard Wright, indisputably a central figure in the Black Chicago Renaissance with the publication of "Blueprint for Negro Writing." Wright sought to distance himself from what he considered to be the failures of the Harlem Renaissance, even as he built upon its aesthetic and cultural legacy. Subsequent chapters discuss Robert Abbott, William Attaway, Claude Barnett, Henry Blakely, Aldon Bland, Edward Bland, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Frank London Brown, Alice Browning, Dan Burley, Margaret Danner, Frank Marshall Davis, Katherine Dunham, Richard Durham, Lorraine Hansberry, Fenton Johnson, John Johnson, Marian Minus, Williard Motley, Marita Bonner, Gordon Parks, John Sengstacke, Margaret Walker, Theodore Ward, Frank Yerby, Black newspapers, the Chicago School of Sociologists, the Federal Theater Project, Black Music, and John Reed Clubs"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aAmerican literature$zIllinois$zChicago$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 607 $aChicago (Ill.)$xIntellectual life$y20th century 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a810.9/896073077311 686 $aLIT004030$aSOC001000$aHIS036060$2bisacsh 701 $aTracy$b Steven C$g(Steven Carl),$f1954-$01473801 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779197803321 996 $aWriters of the Black Chicago renaissance$93792802 997 $aUNINA