Gwendolyn Brooks (Critical Insights)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
About This Volume - Mildred R. Mickle......Page 8
CAREER, LIFE, AND INFLUENCE......Page 12
On Gwendolyn Brooks - Mildred R. Mickle......Page 14
Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks - Charles M. Israel and William T. Lawlor......Page 20
The Paris Review Perspective - Jascha Hoffman for The Paris Review......Page 24
CRITICAL CONTEXTS......Page 30
The Historical and Social Context of Gwendolyn Brooks’s Poetry - Kathy Rugoff......Page 32
The Critical Reception and Influence of Gwendolyn Brooks - Martin Kich......Page 50
Gwendolyn Brooks and the Epic Tradition - Matthew J. Bolton......Page 67
Close Reading as an Approach to Gwendolyn Brooks’s “The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock” - Robert C. Evans......Page 85
CRITICAL READINGS......Page 100
Sweet Bombs - Danielle Chapman......Page 102
The Satisfactions of What’s Difficult in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Poetry - Brooke Kenton Horvath......Page 114
Double Consciousness, Modernism, and Womanist Themes in Gwendolyn Brooks’s “The Anniad” - A. Yemisi Jimoh......Page 127
Heralding the Clear Obscure: Gwendolyn Brooks and Apostrophe - Lesley Wheeler......Page 153
Dialectics of Desire: War and the Resistive Voice in Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Negro Hero”and “Gay Chaps at the Bar” - Ann Folwell Stanford......Page 170
“A Material Collapse That Is Construction”: History and Counter-Memory in Gwendolyn Brooks’s In the Mecca - John Lowney......Page 197
A Prophet Overheard: A Juxtapositional Reading of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “In the Mecca” - Sheila Hassell Hughes......Page 221
“My Newish Voice”: Rethinking Black Power in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Whirlwind - Raymond Malewitz......Page 265
Signifying Afrika: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Later Poetry - Annette Debo......Page 288
Reflecting Violence in the Warpland: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Riot - Annette Debo......Page 310
Killing John Cabot and Publishing Black: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Riot - James D. Sullivan......Page 328
“The Kindergarten of New Consciousness”: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Social Construction of Childhood - Richard Flynn......Page 353
RESOURCES......Page 386
Chronology of Gwendolyn Brooks’s Life......Page 388
Works by Gwendolyn Brooks......Page 391
Bibliography......Page 393
About The Paris Review......Page 400
Contributors......Page 402
Acknowledgments......Page 405
Index......Page 407