Black Arts Poetry Machine

Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets

AvDavid Grundy,Daniel Katz

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Del i serien Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics

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A vital hub of poetry readings, performance, publications and radical politics in 1960s New York, the Umbra Workshop was a cornerstone of the African American avant-garde.Bringing together new archival research and detailed close readings of poetry, A Black Arts Poetry Machine is a groundbreaking study of this important but neglected group of poets. David Grundy explores the work of such poets as Amiri Baraka, Lorenzo Thomas and Calvin Hernton and how their innovative poetic forms engaged with radical political responses to state violence and urban insurrection. Through this examination, the book highlights the continuing relevance of the work of the Umbra Workshop today and is essential reading for anyone interested in 20th-century American poetry.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-02-07
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350061965

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Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

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David Grundy teaches at Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK.

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Grundy has produced a notable contribution to the field of American literary and cultural studies not only in its attention to Umbra, but also in its attention to the complexities of how we approach and understand literary movements.

Innehållsförteckning

AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Baraka, Umbra, and the Writing of Literary History1. “A Tale of Two Cities”: Umbra, Internationalism and the Death of Lumumba2. "Poems That Kill": Amiri Baraka's Magic Words3. "Space of a Nation": David Henderson Writes the City4. Language, Violence and "the Collective Mind" in Calvin C. Hernton5. "Home is Nowhere Where You Were Born": Calvin C. Hernton's "Medicine Man"6. "Return to English Turn": Tom Dent7. Memory and Myth in Lorenzo Thomas' "The Bathers"Conclusion: "If Our Heads are Harder"NotesBibliographyIndex