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

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Main Author: Smethurst, James Edward
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005], ©2005.
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Black nationalism > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African Americans in literature.
Black nationalism in literature.
Black Arts movement.
Online Access:
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Local Note:
MSU: Copy 2 is stored offsite in Remote Storage. Please contact Special Collections 3 working days in advance if you wish to use it.
MSU: Copy 2 - Purchased with funds provided by the Radicalism Collection Endowment Fund in Memory of Beth Shapiro.
Physical Description:xv, 471 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
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.