Revolutionary Poetics: The Rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement - Couverture souple

RudeWalker, Sarah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0820363960 ISBN 13 : 9780820363967

Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2023

Synopsis

In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rhetorical poetics—in what forms, to what audiences, and to what effect. BAM has had far-reaching influence, particularly in developments in positive conceptions of Blackness, in the valorization of Black language practices and its subsequent effects on educational policy, in establishing a legacy of populist dissemination of African American vernacular culture, and in setting the groundwork for important considerations of the aesthetic intersections of race with gender and sexuality. These legacies stand as the movement’s primary—and largely unacknowledged—successes, and they provide significant lessons for navigating our current political moment. RudeWalker presents rhetorical readings of the work of BAM poets (including, among others, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Burroughs, Sarah Webster Fabio, Nikki Giovanni, Etheridge Knight, Audre Lorde, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers, Sonia Sanchez, and the Last Poets) in order to demonstrate the various strands of rhetorical influence that contributed to the Black Arts project and the significant legacies these writers left behind. Her investigation of the rhetorical impact of Black Arts poetry allows her to deal realistically with the movement’s problematic aspects, while still devoting thoughtful scholarly attention to the successful legacy of BAM writers and the ways their work can continue to shape contemporary rhetorical activism.

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À propos de l'auteur

SARAH RUDEWALKER is an assistant professor of English at Spelman College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820363960
• ISBN 13: 9780820363967
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 252
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