Gwendolyn Brooks
By: editor, Mildred R. Mickle
Series: Critical insights; Critical insights
Publisher: Salem Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Pasadena, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781587656323
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On Gwendolyn Brooks  -- Mildred R. Mickle; title: Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks  -- Charles M. Israel, -- William T. Lawlor; title: The Paris review perspective  -- Jascha Hoffman; title: The historical and social context of Gwendolyn Brooks's poetry  -- Kathy Rugoff; title: The critical reception and influence of Gwendolyn Brooks  -- Martin Kich; title: Gwendolyn Brooks and the epic tradition  -- Matthew J. Bolton; title: Close reading as an approach to Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock"  -- Robert C. Evans; title: Sweet bombs  -- Danielle Chapman; title: The satisfactions of what's difficult in Gwendolyn Brooks's poetry  -- Brooke Kenton Horvath; title: Double consciousness, modernism, and womanist themes in Gwendolyn Brooks's "The anniad"  -- A. Yemisi Jimoh; title: Heralding the clear obscure: Gwendolyn Brooks and apostrophe  -- Lesley Wheeler; title: Dialectics of desire: war and the resistive voice in Gwendolyn Brooks's "Negro hero" and "Gay chaps at the bar"  -- Ann Folwell Stanford; title: "A material collapse that is construction": history and counter-memory in Gwendolyn Brooks In the Mecca  -- John Lowney; title: A prophet overheard: a juxtapositional reading of Gwendolyn Brooks's "In the Mecca"  -- Sheila Hassell Hughes; title: "My newish voice": rethinking Black power in Gwendolyn Brooks's Whirlwind  -- Raymond Malewitz; title: Signifying Afrika: Gwendolyn Brooks's later poetry  -- Annette Debo; title: Reflecting violence in the warpland: Gwendolyn Brooks's Riot  -- Annette Debo; title: Killing John Cabot and publishing Black: Gwendolyn Brooks's Riot  -- James D. Sullivan; title: "The kindergarten of new consciousness": Gwendolyn Brooks and the social construction of childhood -- Richard Flynn.