The whiskey of our discontent
Subtitle: Gwendolyn Brooks as conscience and change agent
By: edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff ; foreword by Sonia Sanchez
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781608467631
Subjects: African Americans in literature; Criticism and interpretation; Influence
Other titles: Whisky of our discontent
Description: xx, 228 pages : 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword:; title: This Gwensister called Life  -- Sonia Sanchez -- Preface / -- Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff -- Introduction / -- William Ayers; title: Critical essays.; title: Hacking at the root : Brook's exploration of colorism in Maud Martha  -- Tara Betts; title: Juxtaposed dichotomies : the idealized white suburban pastoral, the surrealist tableau of black poverty, and the women in between  -- Antoinette Brim; title: A poetics against obscuring : reflections on the black underclass in the work of Gwendolyn Brooks  -- R.J. Eldridge; title: The politics of neglect  -- James Allen Hall; title: We still cool? : revisiting black masculinity, resistance, and urban violence in Brooks's "We real cool"  -- Troy Harden; title: Double vision : innocence and  experience in the childlike monologues of Gwendolyn Brooks  -- Judith Harris; title: "I do not sell well" : black women decentered in the Black Arts Movement  -- Ciara Darnise Miller; title: Building an architecture of love : an appreciation of Gwendolyn Brooks's "In Montgomery"  -- Patricia Spears Jones; title: "Velvety velour" and other sonnet textures in Gwendolyn Brooks's "The children of the poor"  -- Christina Pugh; title: The form of paradox : Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Anniad"  -- Keith S. Wilson; title: Art "urges voyages" : sense of self as social change in Gwendolyn Brooks's "The crazy woman" and "Song of Winnie"  -- Demetrice A. Worley; title: Gwendolyn Brooks : On rioting and riot, a symposium.; title: Mundane and plural : "Riot"  -- David Baker; title: Brooks's prosody : three sermons on the Warpland  -- Carl Phillips; title: The eros in democracy : "An aspect of love, alive in ice and fire"  -- Meghan O'Rourke; title: Personal and creative reflections.; title: #149  -- Jill Hawkins; title: Deliberate  -- Dasha Kelly; title: Family pictures, old & new  -- Adrian Matejka; title: Breaking glass and the sad shatter of hope  -- Georgia A. Popoff; title: The necessary truth  -- cin salach; title: Jazz June  -- Clifford Thompson; title: Gwendolyn Brooks and me : how I discovered the golden shovel  -- Emma Vallelunga; title: Our black Ms. Brooks  -- Nagueyalti Warren; title: Blacks : a permission to be blk.  -- avery r. young; title: A moment with Ms. Brooks  -- John H. White; title: Legacy.; title: Pulitzer jury report : February 1950  -- Major Jackson; title: Concealed and carried : Brooks's loaded boxes -- Quraysh Ali Lansana-- Afterword /-- Haki R. Madhubuti.