Post-Jazz Poetics
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Post-Jazz Poetics

A Social History

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Post-Jazz Poetics

A Social History

About this book

African-American expressive arts draw upon multiple traditions of formal experimentation in the service of social change. Within these traditions, Jennifer D. Ryan demonstrates that black women have created literature, music, and political statements signifying some of the most incisive and complex elements of modern American culture. Post-Jazz Poetics: A Social History examines the jazz-influenced work of five twentieth-century African-American women poets: Sherley Anne Williams, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Wanda Coleman, and Harryette Mullen. These writers engagements with jazz-based compositional devices represent a new strand of radical black poetics, while their renditions of local-to-global social critique sketch the outlines of a transnational feminism.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Permissions
  9. Introduction: How Do I Make that Sound? A New Feminist Poetics
  10. 1 Finding Her Voice: The Body Politics of Sherley Anne Williams's Blues
  11. 2 Nationhood Re-Formed: Revolutionary Style and Practice in Sonia Sanchez's Jazz Poetics
  12. 3 Talk to Me: Ecofeminist Disruptions in the Jazz Poetry of Jayne Cortez
  13. 4 Shape-Shifting: The Urban Geographies of Wanda Coleman's Jazz Poetry
  14. 5 Jazz's Word for It: Harryette Mullen and the Politics of Intellectualism
  15. Conclusion: "Too Many Books For Our Eyes"; Future Politics, Future Poetries
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index