"After Mecca" : women poets and the Black Arts Movement

"After Mecca" : women poets and the Black Arts Movement / Cheryl Clarke.

Author/creator	Clarke, Cheryl, 1947-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2005.
Description	xi, 206 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	American poetry--African American authors --History and criticism. Women and literature--United States --History --20th century. American poetry--Women authors --History and criticism. African American women--Intellectual life. African American women in literature. African Americans in literature. Black Arts movement.

Contents	'Missed love': Black power and Black poetry -- The loss of lyric space in Gwendolyn Brooks's "In the Mecca" -- Queen Sistuh : Black women poets and the circle(s) of Blackness -- Black feminist communalism: Ntozake Shange's For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf -- Transferences and confluences : Black arts and Black lesbian-feminism in Audre Lorde's The black unicorn.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-192) and index.
LCCN	2004007530
ISBN	0813534054 (alk. paper)
ISBN	0813534062 (pbk.)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PS310.B53 C48 2005	✔ Available	Place Hold