"After Mecca"

Download or Read eBook "After Mecca" PDF written by Cheryl Clarke and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 0813534062
ISBN-13 : 9780813534060
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Book Synopsis "After Mecca" by : Cheryl Clarke

Book excerpt: 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, Alice Walker, and others chart the emergence of a new and distinct black poetry and its relationship to the black community's struggle for rights and liberation. Clarke also traces the contributions of these poets to the development of feminism and lesbian-feminism, and the legacy they left for others to build on.


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