Malcolm X and the poetics of Haki Madhubuti / Regina Jennings.

"This text examines Malcolm X as literary muse for Haki Madhubuti, one of America's premiere poets and essayists. It contributes to scholarship in refiguring Malcolm X as expressive muse; charting how a disciple built long-lasting African-centered institutions; and revealing how Haki Madhubuti has t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jennings, Regina
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers, [2006], ©2006.
Subjects:
Madhubuti, Haki R., > 1942- > Criticism and interpretation.
X, Malcolm, > 1925-1965 > Influence.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism.
Physical Description:viii, 288 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Malcolm imagining the Black arts movement and Madhubuti
  • From nigger to Negro : dysfunctional beginnings of identity for new world Africans
  • How new is the new Negro?
  • Africa as motif in pre-1960s poetry : selections of the antebellum, the reconstruction, and the Harlem Renaissance
  • Early influences of a revolutionary aesthetic in Black poetry : Langston Hughes and Marcus Garvey
  • W.E.B. du Bois, Cheikh Anta Diop, Malcolm X, and Haki Madhubuti : claiming and containing Continuity in Black language and institutions
  • Issues of memory and maleness : Malcolm and Madhubuti : institution builders and educators
  • Malcolm and Haki and Safisha Madhubuti on African-centered education and Africa in the imagination
  • Malcolm X and Madhubuti : a physical and personal merging
  • Communion: X, a magnet for Madhubuti and Brooks
  • The X-factor influence : a theoretical frame for resistance poetry
  • The X-factor influence on the transformed image of Africa in the poetry of Haki Madhubuti : issues of re(re)naming and inversion.