Conversations with Sonia Sanchez

Conversations with Sonia Sanchez
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 1578069521
ISBN-13 : 9781578069521
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Conversations with Sonia Sanchez by : Sonia Sanchez

Collected interviews with the poet, activist, and author of Home Coming and We a BaddDDD People

Collected Poems

Collected Poems
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Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 426
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ISBN-10 : 9780807026526
ISBN-13 : 0807026522
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Collected Poems by : Sonia Sanchez

Winner Gish Prize for Lifetime Achievement A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning the 4 decades of her literary career. Gathering highlights from all of Sonia Sanchez’s poetry, this compilation is sure to inspire love and community engagement among her legions of fans. Beginning with her earliest work, including poems from her first volume, Homecoming (1969), through to 2019, the poet has collected her favorite work in all forms of verse, from Haiku to excerpts from book-length narratives. Her lifelong dedication to the causes of Black liberation, social equality, and women’s rights is evident throughout, as is her special attention to youth in poems addressed to children and young adults. As Maya Angelou so aptly put it: “Sonia Sanchez is a lion in literature’s forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly.”

I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays

I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 197
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ISBN-10 : 9780822393054
ISBN-13 : 0822393050
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays by : Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez is a prolific, award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement. This collection brings her plays together in one volume for the first time. Like her poetry, Sanchez’s plays voice her critique of the racism and sexism that she encountered as a young female writer in the black militant community in the late 1960s and early 1970s, her ongoing concern with the well-being of the black community, and her commitment to social justice. In addition to The Bronx Is Next (1968), Sister Son/ji (1969), Dirty Hearts (1971), Malcolm/Man Don’t Live Here No Mo (1972), and Uh, Uh; But How Do It Free Us? (1974), this collection includes the never-before-published dramas I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t (1982) and 2 X 2 (2009), as well as three essays in which Sanchez reflects on her art and activism. Jacqueline Wood’s introduction illuminates Sanchez’s stagecraft in relation to her poetry and advocacy for social change, and the feminist dramatic voice in black revolutionary art.

Wonderland

Wonderland
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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : 9781509837298
ISBN-13 : 1509837299
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Wonderland by : Steven Johnson

"Everyone knows the old saying "necessity is the mother of invention," but if you do a paternity test on many of the modern world's most important ideas or institutions, you will find, invariably, that leisure and play were involved in the conception as well." Most history books don't concern themselves with delight. History is the serious business of war, treaties, governments and monarchs. This is a different kind of history book. Steven Johnson argues that if you want to understand how we got to now, you have to understand pleasure and play. A staggering amount of the landscape of modern life is populated by environments and technology designed to entertain and delight us. Here history of popular entertainment, arguing that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change. Throughout history, he locates the cutting edge of innovation wherever people are working the hardest to keep themselves and others amused.He introduces us to the colorful innovators of leisure: the explorers, proprietors, showmen, and artists who changed the trajectory of history with their luxurious wares, exotic meals, taverns, gambling tables, and magic shows.

SOS - Calling All Black People

SOS - Calling All Black People
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1625340303
ISBN-13 : 9781625340306
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis SOS - Calling All Black People by : John H. Bracey

This volume brings together a broad range of key writings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, among the most significant cultural movements in American history. The aesthetic counterpart of the Black Power movement, it burst onto the scene in the form of artists' circles, writers' workshops, drama groups, dance troupes, new publishing ventures, bookstores, and cultural centers and had a presence in practically every community and college campus with an appreciable African American population. Black Arts activists extended its reach even further through magazines such as Ebony and Jet, on television shows such as Soul! and Like It Is, and on radio programs. Many of the movement's leading artists, including Ed Bullins, Nikki Giovanni, Woodie King, Haki Madhubuti, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Touré, and Val Gray Ward remain artistically productive today. Its influence can also be seen in the work of later artists, from the writers Toni Morrison, John Edgar Wideman, and August Wilson to actors Avery Brooks, Danny Glover, and Samuel L. Jackson, to hip hop artists Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Chuck D. SOS -- Calling All Black People includes works of fiction, poetry, and drama in addition to critical writings on issues of politics, aesthetics, and gender. It covers topics ranging from the legacy of Malcolm X and the impact of John Coltrane's jazz to the tenets of the Black Panther Party and the music of Motown. The editors have provided a substantial introduction outlining the nature, history, and legacy of the Black Arts Movement as well as the principles by which the anthology was assembled.

A Study Guide for Sonia Sanchez's "An Anthem"

A Study Guide for Sonia Sanchez's
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Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages : 26
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ISBN-10 : 9781410340122
ISBN-13 : 1410340120
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis A Study Guide for Sonia Sanchez's "An Anthem" by : Gale, Cengage Learning

A Study Guide for Sonia Sanchez's "An Anthem," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Sonia Sanchez's Poetic Spirit through Haiku

Sonia Sanchez's Poetic Spirit through Haiku
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9781498543330
ISBN-13 : 1498543332
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Sonia Sanchez's Poetic Spirit through Haiku by : John Zheng

This collection of ten critical essays is the first scholarly criticism of haiku by Sonia Sanchez, who has exemplified herself for six decades as a major figure in the Black Arts Movement, a central activist in civil rights and women’s movements, and an internationally-known writer in American literature. Sanchez’s haiku, as an integral and prominent part of contemporary African American poetry, have expressed not only her ideas of nature, beauty, and harmony but also her aesthetic experience of music, culture, and love. Aesthetically, this experience reflects a poetic mind which has helped the poet to shape or reimage her poetic spirit.

Conversations with Lenard D. Moore

Conversations with Lenard D. Moore
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 165
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ISBN-10 : 9781496853967
ISBN-13 : 1496853962
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Conversations with Lenard D. Moore by : John Zheng

Known internationally for his Japanese-style poetry, Lenard D. Moore (b. 1958) has published eight poetry collections over the course of his career. Moore has distinguished himself especially in such forms as jazz poetry, haiku, tanka, renga, sequence, and haibun, expressing moments of aesthetic delight as well as a voice enriched with African American culture. Conversations with Lenard D. Moore is a fundamental collection of sixteen interviews with the esteemed writer and former president of the Haiku Society of America. To Moore, jazz is a joyful celebration of American life and culture. The impacts of such great jazz musicians as Max Roach, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, and Ray Charles are clear in his poetry. The conversations collected here lead the reader into Moore’s creative mind, demonstrating his fusion of African American music, culture, and history into poetry, especially his jazz poetry, jazzku, and bluesku. In interviews that range from 1995 to 2023, Moore reveals his capabilities and responsibilities as a contemporary poet, professor, mentor, editor, and organizer. This volume serves as an indispensable source for writers and readers of poetry and African American literature.

In Search of Our Warrior Mothers

In Search of Our Warrior Mothers
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 9780810136953
ISBN-13 : 0810136953
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis In Search of Our Warrior Mothers by : La Donna Forsgren

The Black Arts Movement (1965–76) consisted of artists across the United States deeply concerned with the relationship between politics and the black aesthetic. In Search of Our Warrior Mothers examines the ways in which black women playwrights in the movement advanced feminist and womanist perspectives from within black nationalist discourses. La Donna L. Forsgren recuperates the careers, artistic theories, and dramatic contributions of four leading playwrights: Martie Evans-Charles, J.e. Franklin, Sonia Sanchez, and Barbara Ann Teer. Using original interviews, production recordings, playbills, and unpublished manuscripts, she investigates how these women, despite operating within a context that equated the collective well-being of black people with black male agency, created works that validated black women's aspirations for autonomy and explored women's roles in the struggle for black liberation. In Search of Our Warrior Mothers demonstrates the powerful contributions of women to the creation, interpretation, and dissemination of black aesthetic theory, thus opening an interdisciplinary conversation at the intersections of theater, performance, feminist, and African American studies and identifying and critiquing the gaps and silences within these fields.

With Fists Raised

With Fists Raised
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9781800859777
ISBN-13 : 1800859775
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis With Fists Raised by : Tru Leverette

Focusing on literary and visual art of the Black Arts Movement, this collection highlights artists whose work diverged from narrow definitions of the Black Aesthetic and black nationalism. As contemporary activists receive the legacies of earlier efforts, this collection remembers and re-envisions art that supported and shaped the BAM era.