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Gwendolyn Brooks as conscience and change agent

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An edition of The whiskey of our discontent (2017)

The whiskey of our discontent

Gwendolyn Brooks as conscience and change agent

  • 2 Want to read

xx, 228 pages : 23 cm

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Haymarket Books
Language
English
Pages
228

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Table of Contents

Foreword:
This Gwensister called Life -- Sonia Sanchez -- Preface / -- Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff -- Introduction / -- William Ayers
Critical essays.
Hacking at the root : Brook's exploration of colorism in Maud Martha -- Tara Betts
Juxtaposed dichotomies : the idealized white suburban pastoral, the surrealist tableau of black poverty, and the women in between -- Antoinette Brim
A poetics against obscuring : reflections on the black underclass in the work of Gwendolyn Brooks -- R.J. Eldridge
The politics of neglect -- James Allen Hall
We still cool? : revisiting black masculinity, resistance, and urban violence in Brooks's "We real cool" -- Troy Harden
Double vision : innocence and experience in the childlike monologues of Gwendolyn Brooks -- Judith Harris
"I do not sell well" : black women decentered in the Black Arts Movement -- Ciara Darnise Miller
Building an architecture of love : an appreciation of Gwendolyn Brooks's "In Montgomery" -- Patricia Spears Jones
"Velvety velour" and other sonnet textures in Gwendolyn Brooks's "The children of the poor" -- Christina Pugh
The form of paradox : Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Anniad" -- Keith S. Wilson
Art "urges voyages" : sense of self as social change in Gwendolyn Brooks's "The crazy woman" and "Song of Winnie" -- Demetrice A. Worley
Gwendolyn Brooks : On rioting and riot, a symposium.
Mundane and plural : "Riot" -- David Baker
Brooks's prosody : three sermons on the Warpland -- Carl Phillips
The eros in democracy : "An aspect of love, alive in ice and fire" -- Meghan O'Rourke
Personal and creative reflections.
#149 -- Jill Hawkins
Deliberate -- Dasha Kelly
Family pictures, old & new -- Adrian Matejka
Breaking glass and the sad shatter of hope -- Georgia A. Popoff
The necessary truth -- cin salach
Jazz June -- Clifford Thompson
Gwendolyn Brooks and me : how I discovered the golden shovel -- Emma Vallelunga
Our black Ms. Brooks -- Nagueyalti Warren
Blacks : a permission to be blk. -- avery r. young
A moment with Ms. Brooks -- John H. White
Legacy.
Pulitzer jury report : February 1950 -- Major Jackson
Concealed and carried : Brooks's loaded boxes -- Quraysh Ali Lansana-- Afterword /-- Haki R. Madhubuti.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Titles
Whisky of our discontent

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811.54, B
Library of Congress
PS3503.R7244 Z993 2017, PS3503.R7244

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 228 pages
Number of pages
228

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27238197M
Internet Archive
whiskeyofourdisc0000unse
ISBN 10
1608467635
ISBN 13
9781608467631
OCLC/WorldCat
959035452
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B06XPPYKBD

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