Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement

This reference identifies key contributors to the Black Arts Movement, the name given to a group of poets, artists, dramatists, musicians, and writers who emerged in the wake of the Black Power Movement. This book also discusses major works produced during the period, as well as significant publications, influential groups, and organizations.

About the author

Cynthia Davis, is Professor of English at San Jacinto College in Houston, Texas, where she specializes in Caribbean and African American Literatures. Her publications include Where the Wild Grape Grows: Selected Writings by Dorothy West (2004), Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman (2008), Literary Sisters: Dorothy West and Her Circle (2011), and Zora Neale Hurston: An Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism (Scarecrow Press, 2013).

Verner D. Mitchell is Professor of English at the University of Memphis. He is the editor of This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance (2006) and author (with Cynthia Davis) of four subsequent books on women writers of the Harlem Renaissance. His work has appeared in Studies in American Culture, African American Review, American Literary History, and other journals.

Summary

This reference identifies key contributors to the Black Arts Movement, the name given to a group of poets, artists, dramatists, musicians, and writers who emerged in the wake of the Black Power Movement. This book also discusses major works produced during the period, as well as significant publications, influential groups, and organizations.

Product details

• Authors: Verner Mitchell, Verner D. Davis Mitchell
• Assisted by: Cynthia Davis (Editor), Davis Cynthia (Editor), Verner D. Mitchell (Editor), Mitchell Verner D. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781538101452
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0145-2
• No. of pages: 410
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; USA, Ethnic Studies, REFERENCE / Encyclopedias, ART / Reference, PERFORMING ARTS / Reference, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Reference works, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Black & Asian Studies, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / African American & Black, HISTORY / African American & Black, ART / American / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people