Soul hands clap in the 60s: history and African American poetry

Brenda Flanagan

doi:10.5007/2175-8026.2010n59p84

Soul hands clap in the 60s: history and African American poetry

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Brenda Flanagan Davidson College

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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2010n59p84

Resumo

Just as the modern Civil Rights Movement differed from previous ones in style and substance, the poetry of the 1960s, and especially the late 60s, offered a new way of talking, an especially noticeable sea change in mood, that was, I argue, a consequence of two sets of significant events: one, the 1966 "Black power" speech of Stokely Carmichael ( Kwame Toure) in Greenwood, Mississippi, and, in tandem, the deaths of Medgar Evers (1963), Malcolm X (1965), and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968).

Biografia do Autor

Brenda Flanagan, Davidson College

Brenda Flanagan teaches creative writing, Caribbean and African American Literatures as well as literary analysis at Davidson College. In May 2006 she was named the first Armfield Professor of English. She holds a Ph.D. from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she won three major Hopwood awards—fiction, drama, and short story. Flanagan has won three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, four Global Partners to work with Czech surrealist writers, a Mellon Foundation Grant, a James Michener Creative Writing Fellowship, and a Michigan Grant for creative writing. Professor Flanagan serves frequently as a cultural ambassador for the US Department of State, with recent visits to Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Chad, Panama, India and Brazil. Among the journals in which her fiction and poetry have appeared are the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, SABLE (England), Caliban, KONCH, Witness, The Indiana Review, The Bridge, Caribbean Studies Journal, and Caribbean Review.

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2010-03-01

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n. 59 (2010)

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