Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United - States, 1960s1980

The book not only demonstrates the commonalities and differences in the literary and political strategies of Australian Aboriginal poets, namely Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920-1993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958- ), and African American Black Arts poets Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez (1943- ), but also examines the Aboriginal and African American trans-Pacific literary exchange, promoted by their engagement in an international Black resistance movement.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Transpacific Political Connections; 3. Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Interdisciplinary Poetics (1920-1993); 4. Amiri Baraka and the "Saturation of Blackness" (1934-2014); 5. Sonia Sanchez: Between Black Nationalism and "Womanist" Poetics (1943-); 6. Lionel Fogarty's Multivalent Identitarian Poetics (1958-) 7. Conclusions; Appendix A: A Final Note about the Interview; Appendix B: Ethical Clearance; Approval Form; References; Index

About the author

Ameer Chasib Furaih is an instructor at Baghdad University/ College of Education (Ibn Rushd) for Human Sciences.

Product details

• Authors: Ameer Chasib Furaih
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781839982170
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-217-0
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Anthem Studies in Australian L; Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; ART / Art & Politics, Comparative Literature, ART / Australian & Oceanian, Poetry by individual poets, Literary theory, ART / American / African American & Black, Poetry / poems by individual poets, historical narratives of Australia and the United States