Research Catalog

Title

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.

Publication

• Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lansana, Quraysh Ali
• Popoff, Georgia A.
• Sanchez, Sonia, 1934-

Description

xx, 228 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"The first black woman to be named United States poet laureate, Brook’s poetry, fiction, and social commentary shed light on the beauty of humanity, the distinct qualities of black life and community, and the destructive effects of racism, sexism, and class inequality. A collection of thirty essays combining critical analysis and personal reflection, The Whiskey of Our Discontent, presents essential elements of Brooks' oeuvre—on race, gender, class, community, and poetic craft, while also examining her life as poet, reporter, mentor, sage, activist, and educator." -- Publisher's description

Alternative Title

Gwendolyn Brooks as conscience and change agent

Subjects

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• African Americans in literature
• Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 > Influence
• Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

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

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 1608467635
• 9781608467631

OCLC

• 959035452
• SCSB-11939650

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library