The Black Interior: Essays

by Elizabeth Alexander

Book Overview

With a poet's precision and an intellectually adventurous spirit, Elizabeth Alexander explores a wide spectrum of contemporary African American artistic life through literature, paintings, popular media, and films, and discusses its place in current culture. In The Black Interior, she examines the vital roles of such heavyweight literary figures as Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, and Rita Dove, as well as lesser known, yet vibrant, new...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555973930
• ISBN13: 9781555973933
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.5"