Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Lansana, Quraysh Ali
2. Popoff, Georgia A.
3. Sanchez, Sonia, 1934-

Description

1. xx, 228 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

1. Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 > Influence
2. African Americans in literature
3. Criticism, interpretation, etc
4. Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 > Criticism and interpretation
5. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Foreword: This Gwensister called Life / Sonia Sanchez -- Preface / Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff -- Introduction / William Ayers -- Critical essays -- Hacking at the root: Brook's exploration of colorism in Maud Martha / Tara Betts -- Juxtaposed dichotomies: the idealized white suburban pastoral, the surrealist tableau of black poverty, and the women in between / Antoinette Brim -- A poetics against obscuring: reflections on the black underclass in the work of Gwendolyn Brooks / R.J. Eldridge -- The politics of neglect / James Allen Hall -- We still cool?: revisiting black masculinity, resistance, and urban violence in Brooks's "We real cool" / Troy Harden -- Double vision: innocence and experience in the childlike monologues of Gwendolyn Brooks / Judith Harris -- "I do not sell well': black women decentered in the Black Arts Movement / Ciara Darnise Miller -- Building an architecture of love: an appreciation of Gwendolyn Brooks's "In Montgomery" / Patricia Spears Jones -- "Velvety velour" and other sonnet textures in Gwendolyn Brooks's "the children of the poor" / Christina Pugh -- The form of paradox: Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Anniad" / Keith S. Wilson -- Art "urges voyages": sense of self as social change in Gwendolyn Brooks's "The crazy woman" and "Song of Winnie" / Demetrice A. Worley -- Gwendolyn Brooks : On rioting and riot--a symposium -- Mundane and plural: "Riot" / David Baker -- Brooks's prosody: three sermons on the Warpland / Carl Phillips -- The eros in democracy: "an aspect of love, alive in ice and fire" / Meghan O'Rourke -- Personal and creative reflections: #149 / Jill Hawkins -- Deliberate / Dasha Kelly -- Family pictures, old & new / Adrian Matejka -- Breaking glass and the sad shatter of hope / Georgia A. Popoff -- The necessary truth / cin salach -- Jazz June / Clifford Thompson -- Gwendolyn Brooks and me: how I discovered the golden shovel / Emma Vallelunga -- Our black Ms. Brooks / Nagueyalti Warren -- Blacks: a permission to be blk. / avery r. young -- A moment with Ms. Brooks / John H. White -- Legacy: Pulitzer jury report: February 1950 / Major Jackson -- Concealed and carried: Brooks's loaded boxes / Quraysh Ali Lansana -- Afterword / Haki R. Madhubuti.

Call number

1. Sc E 17-772

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index.

Title

1. The whiskey of our discontent : Gwendolyn Brooks as conscience and change agent / edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff ; foreword by Sonia Sanchez.

Publisher

1. Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2017.

Copyright date

1. ©2017

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index.

Added author

1. Lansana, Quraysh Ali, editor.
2. Popoff, Georgia A., editor.
3. Sanchez, Sonia, 1934- writer of foreword.

ISBN

1. 1608467635 (paperback)
2. 9781608467631 (paperback)

Research call number

1. Sc E 17-772