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The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry

Howard Rambsy II
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The outpouring of creative expression known as the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s spawned a burgeoning number of black-owned cultural outlets, including publishing houses, performance spaces, and galleries. Central to the movement were its poets, who in concert with editors, visual artists, critics, and fellow writers published a wide range of black verse and advanced new theories and critical approaches for understanding African American literary art. 

The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which BAM's poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers, and others) operated and of the small presses and literary anthologies that first published the movement's authors. The book also describes the role of the Black Arts Movement in reintroducing readers to poets such as Langston Hughes, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker, and Phillis Wheatley.

Focusing on the material production of Black Arts poetry, the book combines genetic criticism with cultural history to shed new light on the period, its publishing culture, and the writing and editing practices of its participants. Howard Rambsy II demonstrates how significant circulation and format of black poetic texts—not simply their content—were to the formation of an artistic movement. The book goes on to examine other significant influences on the formation of Black Arts discourse, including such factors as an emerging nationalist ideology and figures such as John Coltrane and Malcolm X.

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  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction: “A Group of Groovy Black People”
  • 1 • Getting Poets on the Same Page: The Roles of Periodicals 17
  • 2 • Platforms for Black Verse: The Roles of Anthologies 49
  • 3 • Understanding the Production of Black Arts Texts 77
  • 4 • All Aboard the Malcolm-Coltrane Express
  • 5 • The Poets, Critics, and Theorists Are One
  • 6 • The Revolution Will Not Be Anthologized
  • List of Anthologies Containing African American Poetry, 1967–75
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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Published: 2011
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license
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  • 978-0-472-11733-8 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-90101-2 (open access)
  • 978-0-472-03568-7 (paper)
  • 978-0-472-00398-3 (audio download)
Subject
  • Literary Studies:American Literature
  • American Studies
  • Literary Studies:Poetry and Poetry Criticism
  • African American Studies
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