Realism, Naturalism, Moderism Highlights
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-African American Literary productions from the 1940s to the 1960s is emphatically northern urban and set mainly in the black African culture capitals
-White youth copied the zoot suit vogue, popularized by blacks along with many elements of bop and hip talk
-“New Poetry” introduced distinctly black urban idioms and an argot of resistance to forms of racial discrimination
-These decades (1940-1960) constitute an extraordinary moment in the development of African American writing
-Realism and naturalism are often considered modern if not modernist and each category assume quite different profiles and inflections from writers
-Literary historians are found of subdividing and punctuating artistic periods with reference to war
-The second Great Migration among the masses of teens (African Americans) destined for economic opportunity
-Poetry published between 1940 and 1960 defies the categories and complicates the debate provoked by thus period narrative forms
-Assumptions of studies in sexuality are brought to bear on much of 1950s fiction by African Americans
-Critics have begun to pursue the kinds of analyses that complicate common place assessments
-Heterosexual masculinity of black male within or outside the Jim Crow south could not be understood apart from its white or homosexual counterparts
-Brooks studied attention to form and technical craftsmanship links with Melvin Tolson and Robert Hayden
-Brooks poetry sometimes been discussed in terms as belittling
-Densely allusive and studiously attentive to craft is full of passionate simplicity much derived from black folk history
-Brooks, a cultural figure that gave way to the image of American soldiers as heroes
-Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun began the longest run on Broadway of drama written by a black Americans of that time
-The establishment of American Negro theaters in 1940 was a milestone in African American history
-ANT was sparked by the success on strivers row written by one of the theaters founders
-A Raisin in the Sun exploration of African roots of African American identity and culture
-Baraka’s desire for “killing poems” hearkened back to Richard Wrights desire for “words as weapon” for art in the service of a struggle for human liberation
-White youth copied the zoot suit vogue, popularized by blacks along with many elements of bop and hip talk
-“New Poetry” introduced distinctly black urban idioms and an argot of resistance to forms of racial discrimination
-These decades (1940-1960) constitute an extraordinary moment in the development of African American writing
-Realism and naturalism are often considered modern if not modernist and each category assume quite different profiles and inflections from writers
-Literary historians are found of subdividing and punctuating artistic periods with reference to war
-The second Great Migration among the masses of teens (African Americans) destined for economic opportunity
-Poetry published between 1940 and 1960 defies the categories and complicates the debate provoked by thus period narrative forms
-Assumptions of studies in sexuality are brought to bear on much of 1950s fiction by African Americans
-Critics have begun to pursue the kinds of analyses that complicate common place assessments
-Heterosexual masculinity of black male within or outside the Jim Crow south could not be understood apart from its white or homosexual counterparts
-Brooks studied attention to form and technical craftsmanship links with Melvin Tolson and Robert Hayden
-Brooks poetry sometimes been discussed in terms as belittling
-Densely allusive and studiously attentive to craft is full of passionate simplicity much derived from black folk history
-Brooks, a cultural figure that gave way to the image of American soldiers as heroes
-Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun began the longest run on Broadway of drama written by a black Americans of that time
-The establishment of American Negro theaters in 1940 was a milestone in African American history
-ANT was sparked by the success on strivers row written by one of the theaters founders
-A Raisin in the Sun exploration of African roots of African American identity and culture
-Baraka’s desire for “killing poems” hearkened back to Richard Wrights desire for “words as weapon” for art in the service of a struggle for human liberation