Gwendolyn Brooks /
editor, Mildred R. Mickle.
- Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2010.
- ix, 406 p. ; 24 cm.
- Critical insights .
- Critical insights. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On Gwendolyn Brooks / Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks / Paris review perspective / historical and social context of Gwendolyn Brooks's poetry / critical reception and influence of Gwendolyn Brooks / Gwendolyn Brooks and the epic tradition / Close reading as an approach to Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock" / Sweet bombs / satisfactions of what's difficult in Gwendolyn Brooks's poetry / Double consciousness, modernism, and womanist themes in Gwendolyn Brooks's "The anniad" / Heralding the clear obscure: Gwendolyn Brooks and apostrophe / Dialectics of desire: war and the resistive voice in Gwendolyn Brooks's "Negro hero" and "Gay chaps at the bar" / material collapse that is construction": history and counter-memory in Gwendolyn Brooks In the Mecca / prophet overheard: a juxtapositional reading of Gwendolyn Brooks's "In the Mecca" / "My newish voice": rethinking Black power in Gwendolyn Brooks's Whirlwind / Signifying Afrika: Gwendolyn Brooks's later poetry / Reflecting violence in the warpland: Gwendolyn Brooks's Riot / Killing John Cabot and publishing Black: Gwendolyn Brooks's Riot / kindergarten of new consciousness": Gwendolyn Brooks and the social construction of childhood / Mildred R. Mickle -- Charles M. Israel, William T. Lawlor -- Jascha Hoffman -- Kathy Rugoff -- Martin Kich -- Matthew J. Bolton -- Robert C. Evans -- Danielle Chapman -- Brooke Kenton Horvath -- A. Yemisi Jimoh -- Lesley Wheeler -- Ann Folwell Stanford -- John Lowney -- Sheila Hassell Hughes -- Raymond Malewitz -- Annette Debo -- Annette Debo -- James D. Sullivan -- Richard Flynn. The The The The "A A "The