Smethurst, James Edward.

The Black Arts Movement : literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s / James Edward Smethurst. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2005. - xv, 471 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-458) and index.

Foreground and underground : the Left, nationalism, and the origins of the Black arts matrix -- Artists imagine the nation, the nation imagines art : the Black Arts Movement and popular culture, history, gender, performance, and textuality -- New York altar city : New York, the Northeast, and the development of Black arts cadres and ideologies -- Institutions for the people : Chicago, Detroit, and the Black Arts Movement in the Midwest -- Bandung world : the West Coast, the Black Arts Movement, and the development of revolutionary nationalism, cultural nationalism, third worldism, and multiculturalism -- Behold the land : regionalism, the Black nation, and the Black Arts Movement in the South.

080782934X (alk. paper) 0807855987 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2004027170


American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Black nationalism--History--United States--20th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
African Americans in literature.
Black nationalism in literature.
Black Arts movement.

PS153.N5 / S56 2005

810.9/896073