Boyd Wrestling with the Muse

Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-231-50364-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyd, Melba Joyce

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Wrestling with the Muse
1. Beginnings and Endings
2. The Fertile Black Bottom of Paradise Valley
3. Poets of Black Bottom: Dudley Randall Meets Robert Hayden
4. War at Home and Abroad
5. The Return: Poetry and Prophecy
6. Sojourn and Return
7. The Emergence of the Second Renaissance in Detroit
8. "Ballad of Birmingham'': The Founding of Broadside Press and the Black Arts Movement
9. "Ya Vas Lyubil'': Alexander Pushkin, Dudley Randall, and the Black Russian Connection
10. Cultural Wars and Civil Wars
11. "Prophets for a New Day'': Diversity and Heritage
12. The New Black Poets
13. Dudley Randall's Poetic Dialectics and the Black Arts Movement
14. "After the Killing'': Dudley Randall's Black Arts Poetry
15. Poetry as Industry
16. "Shape of the Invisible'': The Rise and Fall of Broadside Press
17. "In the Mourning Time'': The Return
18. A Poet Is Not A Jukebox
19. At Peace with the Muse
20. "The Ascent''
Epilogue
Appendix I. Translating Poetry Into Film
Appendix II. Worksheets for "Frederick Douglass and the Slave Breaker''
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Melba Joyce Boyd is professor of Africana studies at Wayne State University and adjunct professor at the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of six books of poetry, including The Province of Literary Cats, co-editor of Abandoned Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001, author of Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825–1911, and the producer and director of the documentary film, The Black Unicorn: Dudley Randall and Broadside Press.