The Black Arts Movement
Subtitle: literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
By: James Edward Smethurst.
Series: The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-458) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreground and underground : the Left, nationalism, and the origins of the  Black arts matrix; title: Artists imagine the nation, the nation imagines art : the Black Arts Movement and popular culture, history, gender, performance, and textuality; title: New York altar city : New York, the Northeast, and the development of Black arts cadres and ideologies; title: Institutions for the people : Chicago, Detroit, and the Black Arts Movement  in the Midwest; title: Bandung world : the West Coast, the Black Arts Movement, and the development of revolutionary nationalism, cultural nationalism, third worldism, and multiculturalism; title: Behold the land : regionalism, the Black nation, and the Black Arts Movement in the South.