The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 13 במרץ 2006 - 488 עמודים
Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it deeply influenced the production and reception of literature and art in the United States through its negotiations of the ideological climate of the Cold War, decolonization, and the civil rights movement.

Taking a regional approach, Smethurst examines local expressions of the nascent Black Arts Movement, a movement distinctive in its geographical reach and diversity, while always keeping the frame of the larger movement in view. The Black Arts Movement, he argues, fundamentally changed American attitudes about the relationship between popular culture and "high" art and dramatically transformed the landscape of public funding for the arts.

 

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Introduction
1
The Left Nationalism and the Origins of the Black Arts Matrix
23
The Black Arts Movement and Popular Culture History Gender Performance and Textuality
57
New York the Northeast and the Development of Black Arts Cadres and Ideologies
100
Chicago Detroit and the Black Arts Movement in the Midwest
179
The West Coast the Black Arts Movement and the Development of Revolutionary Nationalism Cultural Nationalism Third Worldism and Multicultura...
247
Regionalism the Black Nation and the Black Arts Movement in the South
319
Conclusion
367
APPENDIX 1 Birth Dates of Selected Black Arts and Black Power Figures
375
APPENDIX 2 Time Line of the Early Black Arts and Black Power Movements
377
Notes
381
Bibliography
429
Index
459
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עמוד xi - The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library and the PhelpsStokes Fund, is awarded by a jury of scholars of international reputation.

מידע על המחבר (2006)

James Edward Smethurst is associate professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is author of The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 and coeditor of Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States.

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