The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s (The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture)

James Smethurst

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Publication Date: May 9th, 2005

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press

ISBN:

9780807855980

Pages:

488

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Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it deeply influenced the production and reception of literature and art in the United States through its negotiations of the ideological climate of the Cold War, decolonization, and the civil rights movement.

Taking a regional approach, Smethurst examines local expressions of the nascent Black Arts Movement, a movement distinctive in its geographical reach and diversity, while always keeping the frame of the larger movement in view. The Black Arts Movement, he argues, fundamentally changed American attitudes about the relationship between popular culture and "high" art and dramatically transformed the landscape of public funding for the arts.

About the Author

James Edward Smethurst is associate professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is author of "The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946" and coeditor of "Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States."

The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s (The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture)

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