Research Catalog

Title

The Black Arts Movement : literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s / James Edward Smethurst.

Author

Smethurst, James Edward.

Publication

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.

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Description

xv, 471 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Subjects

• African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Black nationalism in literature
• African Americans in literature
• American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
• Black Arts movement
• Black nationalism > United States > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-458) and index.

Contents

Foreground and underground : the Left, nationalism, and the origins of the Black arts matrix -- Artists imagine the nation, the nation imagines art : the Black Arts Movement and popular culture, history, gender, performance, and textuality -- New York altar city : New York, the Northeast, and the development of Black arts cadres and ideologies -- Institutions for the people : Chicago, Detroit, and the Black Arts Movement -- In the Midwest -- Bandung world : the West Coast, the Black Arts Movement, and the development of revolutionary nationalism, cultural nationalism, third worldism, and multiculturalism -- Behold the land : regionalism, the Black nation, and the Black Arts Movement in the South.

Call Number

Sc E 05-811

ISBN

• 080782934X (alk. paper)
• 0807855987 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004027170

OCLC

57002162

Author

Smethurst, James Edward.

Title

The Black Arts Movement : literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s / James Edward Smethurst.

Imprint

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.

Series

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-458) and index.

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Research Call Number

Sc E 05-811