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Carregando... The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s (2005)de James Edward Smethurst
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Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it deeply influenced the production and reception of literature and art in the United States through its negotiations of the ideological climate of the Cold War, decolonization, and the civil rights movement. Taking a regional approach, Smethurst examines local expressions of the nascent Black Arts Movement, a movement distinctive in its geographical reach and diversity, while always keeping the frame of the larger movement in view. The Black Arts Movement, he argues, fundamentally changed American attitudes about the relationship between popular culture and "high" art and dramatically transformed the landscape of public funding for the arts. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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But no. When Smethurst does discuss gender, he devotes most of the space to saying Baraka, Don Lee, and other movement leaders weren't so bad on these issues after all, mostly by referencing their apologetic and ashamed postBAM writings. Smethurst doesn't mention Baraka's homophobic bullying of James Baldwin. In fact, Smethurst gives actual BAM literary gay bashing one paragraph in which he speaks in generalities and gives one example. As for misogyny, the sole example he gives is from Amina Baraka, thus making it seem as if the movement's misogyny was supplied by women themselves.
The review before me notes how much research is here -- I completely agree: This is indeed a useful book. It tells the same old BAM story, though. ( )