"After Mecca": Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement

by Cheryl Clark and Cheryl A. Clarke

Book Overview

The politics and music of the sixties and early seventies have been the subject of scholarship for many years, but it is only very recently that attention has turned to the cultural production of African American poets.
In "After Mecca," Cheryl Clarke explores the relationship between the Black Arts Movement and black women writers of the period. Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813534062
• ISBN13: 9780813534060
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher