The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry
by Howard Rambsy II
University of Michigan Press, 2013 eISBN: 978-0-472-12005-5 | Paper: 978-0-472-03568-7 | Cloth: 978-0-472-11733-8 Library of Congress Classification PS310.N4R35 2011 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.509896073
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which the Black Arts Movement’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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Howard Rambsy II is Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
REVIEWS
"Rambsy's book takes up in closer detail the central issues of the Black Arts Movement, and its approach will be a model for subsequent scholarship. Reverberations from the Black Arts era are still demonstrably at work in the literature of this moment, and this rereading of the BAM era brings with it a reconfiguration of our understandings of previous eras."
—Aldon Nielsen, Penn State University
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"Rambsy's sharp analysis of the material production of Black Arts poetry, supported by an extraordinarily sensitive attention to significant historical and textual detail, greatly advances our knowledge of the Black Arts Movement."
—James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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"The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry is the first serious study to concentrate on the creative and critical role of Black poets, their poetry, their publishers, and the cultural, economic, and political activity their work generated in the nation . . . essential reading for students of the Black Arts Movement and African American studies."
—Haki R. Madhubuti, Founder and Publisher of Third World Press
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"A significant contribution to the growing body of scholarship about the Black Arts Movement, Rambsy's book is a carefully observed, systematic account of the milieu out of which, and within which, this paradigm-altering movement occurred. ... [A]n indispensable source for information on this seminal moment in American culture."
—Choice
— A. Miller, George Washington University, Choice
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Contents
Introduction: "A Group of Groovy Black People"
Chapter 1. Getting Poets on the Same Pate: The Roles of Periodicals
Chapter 2. Platforms for Black Verse: The Roles of Anthologies
Chapter 3. Understanding the Production of Black Arts Texts
Chapter 4. All Aboard the Malcolm-Coltrane Express
Chapter 5. The Poets, Critics, and Theorists Are One
Chapter 6. The Revolution Will Not Be Anthologized
List of Anthologies Containing African American Poetry, 1967-75
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry
by Howard Rambsy II
University of Michigan Press, 2013 eISBN: 978-0-472-12005-5 Paper: 978-0-472-03568-7 Cloth: 978-0-472-11733-8
The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which the Black Arts Movement’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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Howard Rambsy II is Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
REVIEWS
"Rambsy's book takes up in closer detail the central issues of the Black Arts Movement, and its approach will be a model for subsequent scholarship. Reverberations from the Black Arts era are still demonstrably at work in the literature of this moment, and this rereading of the BAM era brings with it a reconfiguration of our understandings of previous eras."
—Aldon Nielsen, Penn State University
— -
"Rambsy's sharp analysis of the material production of Black Arts poetry, supported by an extraordinarily sensitive attention to significant historical and textual detail, greatly advances our knowledge of the Black Arts Movement."
—James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts Amherst
— -
"The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry is the first serious study to concentrate on the creative and critical role of Black poets, their poetry, their publishers, and the cultural, economic, and political activity their work generated in the nation . . . essential reading for students of the Black Arts Movement and African American studies."
—Haki R. Madhubuti, Founder and Publisher of Third World Press
— -
"A significant contribution to the growing body of scholarship about the Black Arts Movement, Rambsy's book is a carefully observed, systematic account of the milieu out of which, and within which, this paradigm-altering movement occurred. ... [A]n indispensable source for information on this seminal moment in American culture."
—Choice
— A. Miller, George Washington University, Choice
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Contents
Introduction: "A Group of Groovy Black People"
Chapter 1. Getting Poets on the Same Pate: The Roles of Periodicals
Chapter 2. Platforms for Black Verse: The Roles of Anthologies
Chapter 3. Understanding the Production of Black Arts Texts
Chapter 4. All Aboard the Malcolm-Coltrane Express
Chapter 5. The Poets, Critics, and Theorists Are One
Chapter 6. The Revolution Will Not Be Anthologized
List of Anthologies Containing African American Poetry, 1967-75
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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