1st Edition

African American Nationalist Literature of the 1960s Pens of Fire

By Sandra Hollin Flowers Copyright 1996
214 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Bringing together political theory and literary works, this study recreates the political climate which made the 1960s an unforgettable era for young black Americans. A chapter on The Many Shades of Black Nationalism, for instance, explains: why black nationalism is known by more than a dozen different names; how events in Africa influenced black nationalism in America; why Malcolm X's death had a... Read more
INTRODUCTION, 1 THE MANY SHADES OF BLACK NATIONALISM, 2 CULTURAL AND REVOLUTIONARY NATIONALISM: 3 THE DOMINANT VARIANTS, 4 CREATIVITY AND POLITICS, NATIONALIST POETRY, 5 NATIONALIST THEATER, 6 NATIONALIST FICTION

Biography

Sandra Hollin Flowers