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- The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry since 1945
- The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry since 1945
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I American Poetry from 1945 to 1970
- Chapter 1 The Raw and the Cooked
- Chapter 2 The Black Mountain Poets
- Chapter 3 The Beats and the San Francisco Renaissance
- Chapter 4 The New York School of Poetry
- Chapter 5 The Middle Generation, Elizabeth Bishop, and Confessional Poetry
- Chapter 6 Deep Image Poetry
- Chapter 7 African American Poetry from 1945 to 1970
- Part II American Poetry from 1970 to 2000
- Part III Into the New Millennium American Poetry from 2000 to the Present
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Chapter 7 - African American Poetry from 1945 to 1970
from Part I - American Poetry from 1945 to 1970
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2022
- The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry since 1945
- The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry since 1945
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I American Poetry from 1945 to 1970
- Chapter 1 The Raw and the Cooked
- Chapter 2 The Black Mountain Poets
- Chapter 3 The Beats and the San Francisco Renaissance
- Chapter 4 The New York School of Poetry
- Chapter 5 The Middle Generation, Elizabeth Bishop, and Confessional Poetry
- Chapter 6 Deep Image Poetry
- Chapter 7 African American Poetry from 1945 to 1970
- Part II American Poetry from 1970 to 2000
- Part III Into the New Millennium American Poetry from 2000 to the Present
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Summary
This chapter addresses the flowering of African American poetry that occurs from 1945 to 1970 against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement and in the context of a period of tumultuous change in the history of race relations in America. The chapter discusses how poets such as Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Amiri Baraka grapple in various ways with fraught questions about aesthetics, race, identity, and politics. The chapter examines the emergence of the influential and controversial movement known as the Black Arts Movement (led by poets including Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, and Nikki Giovanni) in the context of the turbulent racial violence and social justice movements of the 1960s.
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- The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry since 1945 , pp. 119 - 134Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022