The outpouring of creative expression known as the Black Arts
Movement of the 1960s and 1970s spawned a burgeoning number of
black-owned cultural outlets, including publishing houses,
performance spaces, and galleries. Central to the movement were its
poets, who in concert with editors, visual artists, critics, and
fellow writers published a wide range of black verse and advanced
new theories and critical approaches for understanding African
American literary art.
"The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African
American Poetry "offers a close examination of the literary culture
in which BAM's poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia
Sanchez, Larry Neal, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers, and others)
operated and of the small presses and literary anthologies that
first published the movement's authors. The book also describes the
role of the Black Arts Movement in reintroducing readers to poets
such as Langston Hughes, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker, and
Phillis Wheatley.
Focusing on the material production of Black Arts poetry, the
book combines genetic criticism with cultural history to shed new
light on the period, its publishing culture, and the writing and
editing practices of its participants. Howard Rambsy II
demonstrates how significant circulation and format of black poetic
texts--not simply their content--were to the formation of an
artistic movement. The book goes on to examine other significant
influences on the formation of Black Arts discourse, including such
factors as an emerging nationalist ideology and figures such as
John Coltrane and Malcolm X.
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