| Description |
286 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [271]-279. |
| Contents |
"Madimba: Gwendolyn Brooks" / Michael S. Harper -- "Down the whirlwind of good rage": an introduction to Gwendolyn Brooks / Maria K. Mootry -- 1. "That mad demi-art": general assessment: The achievement of Gwendolyn Brooks / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Aesthetic values in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks / George E. Kent -- The world of Satin-legs, Mrs. Sallie, and the Blackstone Rangers: the restricted Chicago of Gwendolyn Brooks / Kenny J. Williams -- The poet-militant and foreshadowings of a Black mystique: poems in the second period of Gwendolyn Brooks / William H. Hansell -- Gwendolyn Brooks and a Black aesthetic / Norris B. Clark -- "Does man love art?": the humanistic aesthetic of Gwendolyn Brooks / R. Baxter Miller -- 2. "A brisk contour": analysis of the poetry: Songs after sunset (1935-36): the unpublished poetry of Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks / Erlene Stetson -- Paradise regained: the children of Gwendolyn Brooks's Bronzeville / Gary Smith -- Anger so flat: Gwendolyn Brooks's Annie Allen / Claudia Tate -- The women of Bronzeville / Beverly Guy-Sheftall -- Gwendolyn Brooks's "Children of the poor", metaphysical poetry and the inconditions of love / Gary Smith -- "Tell it Slant": disguise and discovery as revisionist poetic discourse in The bean eaters / Maria K. Mootry -- Community and voice: Gwendolyn Brooks's "In the mecca" / Gayl Jones -- The ballads of Gwendolyn Brooks / Gladys Williams -- Gwendolyn the terrible: propositions on eleven poems / Hortense J. Spillers. -- 3. "Daughter of the dusk": Maud Martha: Nuance and the novella: a study of Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha / Barbara Christian -- Maud Martha: the war with beauty / Harry B. Shaw. |
| Subject |
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans in literature.
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| Added Author |
Mootry, Maria.
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Smith, Gary, 1949-
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| ISBN |
0252013670 alkaline paper |
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