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Informationen zum Autor Virginia C. Fowler , PhD, is professor of English at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Klappentext This book offers a comprehensive examination of the life and work of Nikki Giovanni, one of the most prolific and well-known poets to emerge during the Black Arts Movement. Nikki Giovanni: A Literary Biography focuses on one of the most widely read poets to emerge from the Black Arts Movement, providing a thorough examination of Giovanni's life and work, from her earliest volume of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk , to the recent Bicycles . The book addresses Giovanni's preoccupation with historical themes and the past, and demonstrates the pervasiveness of music in Giovanni's poetry.Drawing on extensive interviews with Giovanni's friends and family, this book offers biographical information not previously available in other publications. It references material from Giovanni's prose works to illuminate and contextualize the analysis of her poetry, examining its highly allusive and topical nature. The book also shows the intersections of Giovanni's biography and the public history of the United States from the 1960s to the present, making it of interest to general readers as well as those studying American and African-American poetry or black feminism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Foreword by Joanne M. Braxton Acknowledgments One To "Be Warm All the Time": The Importance of Grandmothers Two Can Women Be Revolutionaries? Gender Issues in the Black Arts Movement Three Running the Kitchen, Standing the Heat Four Accomplishment and Responsibility Five In, But Not of, the Academy Six Life Changes Seven The Poet, the Person, the Legacy Notes Selected Bibliography Index
