Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Citizen: An American Lyric is a 2014 book-length poem [1] and a series of lyric essays by American poet Claudia Rankine. Citizen stretches the conventions of traditional lyric poetry by interweaving several forms of text and media into a collective portrait of racial relations in the United States. [2]
In between those essays, there are poems, journal entries, interviews, photos, and more. [7] Racism. This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa is a feminist piece that describes two polarizing views based on skin color, the perspectives of light and dark skin Latin American women. [13]
This poem, along with other works by Hughes, helped define the Harlem Renaissance, a period in the early 1920s and '30s of newfound cultural identity for blacks in America who had discovered the power of literature, art, music, and poetry as a means of personal and collective expression in the scope of civil rights. [1]
Coal is a collection of poetry by Audre Lorde, published in 1976. [1] It was Lorde's first collection to be released by a major publisher. [2] Lorde's poetry in Coal explored themes related to the several layers of her identity as a "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet." [3] [4]
Ntozake Shange (/ ˌ ɛ n t oʊ ˈ z ɑː k i ˈ ʃ ɑː ŋ ɡ eɪ / EN-toh-ZAH-kee SHAHNG-Ê; [1] October 18, 1948 – October 27, 2018) was an American playwright and poet. [2] As a Black feminist, she addressed issues relating to race and Black power in much of her work.
After the publication of the book, Brown Girl Dreaming was praised for its educational merit as a book that expands questions of ethics, relationships, and race. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Ross Collin advocated for the use of the book in an educational setting because the content helps to expand students' “moral worldview” when it comes to ...
A reviewer in Publishers Weekly notes that McCallum's Madwoman is dynamic and unpredictable; the collection investigates identity and the lack of control a woman, especially a biracial woman, has over it. The reviewer cites from the poem "Red" and comments, "identity [is] an heirloom, a force that imprints on a lineage of women".
In his collection of poems To the Three for Whom the Book Cullen uses Greek methodology to explore race and identity and writes about Medusa, Theseus, Phasiphae, and the Minotaur. [40] Although continuing to develop themes of race and identity in his work, Cullen found artistic inspiration in ancient Greek and Roman literature.