"After Mecca"
Subtitle: women poets and the Black Arts Movement
By: Cheryl Clarke.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; African American women -- Intellectual life.; African American women in literature.; African Americans in literature.; Black Arts movement.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-192) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Missed love': Black power and Black poetry; title: The loss of lyric space in Gwendolyn Brooks' "In the Mecca"; title: Queen Sistuh : Black women poets and the circle(s) of Blackness; title: Black feminist communalism : Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf; title: Transferences and confluences : Black arts and Black lesbian-feminism in Audre Lorde's The black unicorn.