The Black Arts Movement : literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s

Publication Data

• Title The Black Arts Movement : literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
• Author James Edward Smethurst
• Publisher University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date 2005
• Publication location Chapel Hill, N.C.
• Language English

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.

Topics

• 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

The Black Arts Movement : literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s by James Edward Smethurst. ISBN 0807855987. Published by University of North Carolina Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.