"After Mecca" : women poets and the Black Arts Movement /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Clarke, Cheryl, 1947-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2005]
Subjects:	American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism. Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century. American poetry > Women authors > History and criticism. African American women > Intellectual life. African American women in literature. African Americans in literature. Black Arts movement.

Table of Contents:

'Missed love': Black power and Black poetry
The loss of lyric space in Gwendolyn Brooks' "In the Mecca"
Queen Sistuh : Black women poets and the circle(s) of Blackness
Black feminist communalism : Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Transferences and confluences : Black arts and Black lesbian-feminism in Audre Lorde's The black unicorn.