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Social Themes in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks
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A genre revised in the epic poetry of H.D. and Gwendolyn Brooks
… the argument that H.D.'s iielen in Eavpt and Gwendolyn Brooks's In the Mecca are twentieth century epics. With the focus on a female heroine, on personal and interpersonal values, and on a reconsideration of cultural lieroism, these poems are important literary contributions in addition to …
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Urban rage in Bronzeville: Social commentary in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, 1945-1960
Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet Laureate of Illinois, earned fame when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (1950) for her second book of poetry, Annie Allen (1949). Brooks used the poetic language and the traditional prosodic devices of the English poets and earned wide acclaim for her poetic expertise. …
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HARLEM IN SHAKESPEARE AND SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM: THE SONNETS OF CLAUDE MCKAY, COUNTEE CULLEN, LANGSTON HUGHES, AND GWENDOLYN BROOKS
… by poets such as McKay, Cullen, Hughes, and Brooks. The formal and social characteristics of sonnets by African-Americans function synergistically: the way that the octave and the sestet respond to each other in a single poem is also similar to the "call-and- response" movement of African …
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"Beyond Consolation": Or Strangeness, Estrangement, and Strange-ing in the Elegy for the Black Body, 1955-Present
… Is it entangled in the protest poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks and Audre Lorde, whose justice elegies embody a maternal literary tradition of mourning that resists racial and sexual hegemonic violence? Is it inclusive of communal bodies and spaces as in Sonia Sanchez’ communal elegy for the …
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Art and ephemerality: The cultural work of American poetry broadsides since 1960
… series, which featured the work of Randall, Gwendolyn Brooks, and younger African American poets of the 1960s and 70s--and the antiwar movement--including work by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, and W. S. Merwin--peotry broadsides function as specific material interventions in social and …
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A sturdy Black bridge : a symbolic connection among three generations of Black female poets.
… a decidedly feminine perspective, poets such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, Ai, and many others have used their poetry to enhance the history and literature of Black people. One major focus of this study is upon a core group of African-American female poets born during the Great Depression. …
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Other Than a Citizen: Vernacular Poetics in Postwar America
… Robert Duncan, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka and Gwendolyn Brooks, against the historical backdrop of the Free-Speech Movement and the rise of mass-culture. When poets frame nonliterary speech within the literary page, they encounter the inability of writing to capture the vital ephemerality of …
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Memory at work : domestic archives in documentary poetry by women of color
Because documentary poetry is often considered public-facing poetry about public concerns, its representation of domesticity is rarely studied. Arguing that documentary poetry helps poets localize censored historical events, I consider seven female poets of color whose documentary poetry projects …