Title: Post-jazz poetics
Description: "African-American expressive arts draw upon multiple traditions of formal experimentation in the service of social change. Within these traditions, Jennifer D. Ryan demonstrates that black women have created literature, music, and political statements signifying some of the most incisive and complex elements of modern American culture. Post-Jazz Poetics: A Social History examines the jazz-influenced work of five twentieth-century African-American women poets: Sherley Anne Williams, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Wanda Coleman, and Harryette Mullen. These writers' engagements with jazz-based compositional devices represent a new strand of radical black poetics, while their renditions of local-to-global social critique sketch the outlines of a transnational feminism"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: African American authors, Feminism and literature, History and criticism, African American women, Literature and society, Music and literature, Poetics, Intellectual life, Jazz in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Women authors, American poetry, History, American poetry, african american authors, history and criticism, American poetry, women authors, Music in literature, African americans, intellectual life, Black & Asian studies, English, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: from c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature, POETRY, American, General
Places: United States
People: Harryette Romell Mullen, Wanda Coleman, Jayne Cortez, Sonia Sanchez (1934-), Sherley Anne Williams (1944-1999)
Time periods: 20th century