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66) White girls
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's
Language
English
Description
Weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The result is an extraordinary, complex portrait of "white girls," as Als dubs them--an expansive but precise category that encompasses figures as diverse as Truman Capote and Louise Brooks, Malcolm X and Flannery O'Connor. In pieces that hairpin between critique and meditation, fiction and nonfiction, high culture and low, the...
70) Shadow and act
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
"Essays concerned with literature and folklore, Negro musical expression and the complex relationship between the Negro American and North American culture as a whole." --
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the mid-1960s, African American artists and intellectuals formed the Black Arts movement in tandem with the Black Power movement, with creative luminaries like Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Cade Bambara, and Gil Scott-Heron among their number. In this follow-up to his award-winning history of the movement nationally, James Smethurst investigates the origins, development, maturation, and decline of the vital but under-studied Black Arts...
Author
Series
Publication ; 2
Publisher
Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist politics and American culture, few include the activities of radical writers and artists from the Black Popular Front. Washington's work incorporates these black intellectuals back into our understanding...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"African American literary production has changed in astounding ways since the 1970s. This book provides a systematic and vibrant account of the range and achievements of contemporary Black writers. It considers the history, practice, and future directions of the field"--
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