Start a Riot! – Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and Poetry

Start a Riot! – Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and Poetry

University Press of Mississippi

Start a Riot!Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and Poetry\nAuthor(s): Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781496840448, 978-1496840448\nSynopsis\nWhile the legacy of Black urban rebellions during the turbulent 1960s continues to permeate throughout US histories and discourses, scholars seldom explore within scholarship examining Black Cultural Production, artist-writers of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) that addressed civil unrest, specifically riots, in their artistic writings.\n\n Start a Riot! Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and Poetry analyzes riot iconography and its usefulness as a political strategy of protestation. Through a mixed-methods approach of literary close-reading, historical, and sociological analysis, Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani considers how BAM artist-writers like Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Ben Caldwell, Gw.

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