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Brooks, Gwendolyn Elizabeth - 1917–2000, American poet, b. Topeka, Kans. She grew up in the slums of Chicago and lived in that city until her death. Brooks's poems, technically accomplished and written in a variety of forms including quatrains, free verse, ballads, and sonnets, deal with the experience of being black and often of being female in America. She attracted critical attention

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Gwendolyn Brooks (literary criticism) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 209 pgs.

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Dual Vision in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha, in Critique » Read Now
by Patricia H. Lattin, Vernon E. Lattin. 9 pgs.

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...Dual Vision in Gwendolyn Brookss Maud Martha PATRICIA H. LATTIN...its publication in 1953 , Gwendolyn Brookss Maud Martha has been a novel...Martha , Annette Oliver Shandss...
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"A Material Collapse That Is Construction": History and Counter-Memory in Gwendolyn Brooks's In the Mecca, in MELUS » Read Now
by John Lowney. 18 pgs.

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...History and Counter-Memory in Gwendolyn Brookss In the Mecca. by John...discourse of urban decline, Gwendolyn Brookss In the Mecca. The title poem...Rangers: The Restricted...
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Double Consciousness, Modernism, and Womanist Themes in Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Anniad," in MELUS » Read Now
by A. Yemisi Jimoh. 21 pgs.

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...Modernism, and Womanist Themes in Gwendolyn Brookss "The Anniad" by A. Yemisi...The Souls of Black Folk. In Gwendolyn Brookss "The Anniad" such double...
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The Love Song of Satin-Legs Smith: Gwendolyn Brooks Revisits Prufrock's Hell, in Papers on Language & Literature » Read Now
by Judith P. Saunders. 16 pgs.

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...Love Song of Satin-Legs Smith: Gwendolyn Brooks Revisits Prufrocks Hell. by Judith P. Saunders Gwendolyn Brookss poem "The Sundays of Satin-Legs...New York: Penguin, 1954...
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Brooks' Piano after War, in Explicator » Read Now
by Alan C. Lupack. 2 pgs.

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...Books PIANO AFTER WAR Gwendolyn Brooks once said in an interview that she wrote poetry because she liked "working with language, as others like working with paints and...
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By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry ("Meditations on 'Mecca': Gwendolyn Brooks and the Responsibilities of the Black Poet" begins on p. 368) » Read Now
by Molly McQuade. 440 pgs.

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Have women finally moved beyond the status of cultural outsiders to become full participants in American poetry and its criticism? In By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry, contemporary women poets reconsider their art form on their own terms, and the results are both telling and fascinating. This lively...
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Have women finally moved beyond the status of cultural outsiders to become full participants in American poetry and its criticism? In By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry, contemporary women poets reconsider their art form on their own terms, and the results are both telling and fascinating. This lively and richly varied collection offers more than two dozen essays that are uniformly original, challenging, playful, and ruthlessly individualistic.
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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 (Chap. 6 "Hysterical Ties: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Rise of a 'High' Neomodernism") » Read Now
by James Edward Smethurst. 288 pgs.

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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 surveys African American poetry between the onset of the Depression and the early days of the Cold War. The New Red Negro considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African American poets and...
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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 surveys African American poetry between the onset of the Depression and the early days of the Cold War. The New Red Negro considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African American poets and organized ideology from the "proletarian" early 1930s to the "neo-modernist" late 1940s. This study examines poetry by writers who are canonical, less well-known, and virtually unknown.
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Perspectives of Black Popular Culture ("Cultural Challenge, Heroic Response: Gwendolyn Brooks and the New Black Poetry" begins on p. 71) » Read Now
by Harry B. Shaw. 181 pgs.

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...Africanisms which culminate in Black popular culture. Whether the author is Toomer, Wright, Baldwin, Ellison, Morrison, Walker, or Brooks, the depiction of Black folk are...
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African American Autobiographers: A Sourcebook ("Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)" begins on p. 47) » Read Now
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 416 pgs.

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Chronicling the autobiographical tradition in African American literature from the 18th century to the present, this volume features 66 authors from Maya Angelou to Malcolm X. Alphabetized entries, written by expert contributors, include concise biographies, overviews of autobiographical works and...
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Chronicling the autobiographical tradition in African American literature from the 18th century to the present, this volume features 66 authors from Maya Angelou to Malcolm X. Alphabetized entries, written by expert contributors, include concise biographies, overviews of autobiographical works and themes, reviews of critical receptions, and bibliographies.
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Black American Women Poets and Dramatists ("Gwendolyn Brooks b. 1917" begins on p. 15) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 247 pgs.

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...Maya Angelou 1 Gwendolyn Brooks 15 Alice Childress...such as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes and Nikki Giovanni...Best Friend Is Chicken. 1994...
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Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-)" begins on p. 47) » Read Now
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 530 pgs.

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During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature. This reference book offers lively, concise, and current information about the lives and imaginative works of 79 contemporary African American novelists. Each of the alphabetically...
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During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature. This reference book offers lively, concise, and current information about the lives and imaginative works of 79 contemporary African American novelists. Each of the alphabetically arranged entries begins with a biographical sketch of the author, offers a judicious critical assessment of the author's major works, provides a representative sample of the critical responses the author's books have elicited, and concludes with a selected bibliography that lists the author's publications as well as useful secondary material. Included are entries for major figures, such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison, but many noteworthy young writers also receive the attention they deserve. Forty-one of the 79 writers discussed are women, and roughly a dozen of the novelists have identified themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Intended for students and advanced scholars alike, the volume is sophisticated yet accessible to a wide audience.
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Killing John Cabot and Publishing Black: Gwendolyn Brooks's Riot, in African American Review » Read Now
by James D. Sullivan. 13 pgs.

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...Cabot and publishing black: Gwendolyn Brookss Riot. by James D. Sullivan...at the height of her career, Gwendolyn Brooks .changed publishers, switching...judgment, titling...
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"The Kindergarten of New Consciousness": Gwendolyn Brooks and the Social Construction of Childhood, in African American Review » Read Now
by Richard Flynn. 17 pgs.

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...Kindergarten of New Consciousness": Gwendolyn Brooks and the Social Construction...In Report from Part One, Gwendolyn Brooks gives an account of her "conversion...go in at...
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"No Justice, No Peace": The Figure of Emmett Till in African American Literature, in MELUS » Read Now
by Christopher Metress. 18 pgs.

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...of artists. Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Anne Moody...sacrificial lamb would be left to Gwendolyn Brooks, whose 1960 poem "A Bronzeville...Charlie. New...