James Edward Smethurst
Autor von The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
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Werke von James Edward Smethurst
Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States (2003) 11 Exemplare
The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance (2011) 10 Exemplare
New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 (Race and American Culture), The (1999) 9 Exemplare
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Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle (2009) — Mitwirkender — 56 Exemplare
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But no. When Smethurst does discuss gender, he devotes most of the space to saying Baraka, Don Lee, and other movement leaders weren't so bad on these issues after all, mostly by referencing their apologetic and ashamed postBAM writings. Smethurst doesn't mention Baraka's homophobic bullying of James Baldwin. In fact, Smethurst gives actual BAM literary gay bashing one paragraph in which he speaks in generalities and gives one example. As for misogyny, the sole example he gives is from Amina Baraka, thus making it seem as if the movement's misogyny was supplied by women themselves.
The review before me notes how much research is here -- I completely agree: This is indeed a useful book. It tells the same old BAM story, though.… (mehr)