TY - BOOK ID - 73274769 TI - Writers of the Black Chicago renaissance PY - 2011 SN - 9780252036392 9780252093425 0252093429 1283582864 9781283582865 0252036395 9786613895318 6613895318 0252079310 PB - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Illinois (Etat) KW - Chicago (Ill.) KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - African American authors KW - Intellectual life KW - Abbott, Robert S. KW - Attaway, William A. KW - Barnett, Claude A. KW - Blakely, Henry Lowington KW - Bland, Alden KW - Bland, Edward KW - Bonner, Marita KW - Brooks, Gwendolyn KW - Brown, Frank London KW - Browning, Alice C. KW - Burley, Dan KW - Danner, Margaret Esse KW - Davis, Frank Marshall KW - Durham, Richard KW - Johnson, Fenton KW - Johnson, John H. KW - Minus, Mattie Marian KW - Motley, Willard Francis KW - Parks, Gordon KW - Sengstacke, John KW - Walker, Margaret Abigail KW - Ward, Theodore KW - Wright, Richard KW - Yerby, Frank KW - English literature KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) KW - History and criticism. KW - Chikago (Ill.) KW - Chikaho (Ill.) KW - City of Chicago (Ill.) KW - Shiḳago (Ill.) KW - Čikago (Ill.) KW - شيكاغو (Ill.) KW - Shīkāghū (Ill.) KW - Çikaqo (Ill.) KW - Чыкага (Ill.) KW - Chykaha (Ill.) KW - Чикаго (Ill.) KW - Shikááʼgóó (Ill.) KW - Σικάγο (Ill.) KW - Sikago (Ill.) KW - Kikako (Ill.) KW - שיקגו (Ill.) KW - Sicagum (Ill.) KW - Chicagia (Ill.) KW - Chiagum (Ill.) KW - Čikāga (Ill.) KW - シカゴ (Ill.) KW - شکاگو (Ill.) KW - Shikāgū (Ill.) KW - Kyekago (Ill.) KW - Tchicago (Ill.) KW - שיקאגא (Ill.) KW - Čėkaga (Ill.) KW - 芝加哥 (Ill.) KW - Zhijiage (Ill.) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:73274769 AB - "This volume explores the contours and content of the Black Chicago Renaissance. A movement crafted in the crucible of rigid racial segregation in Chicago's "Black Belt" from the 1930's through the 1960's, its participants were also heavily influenced by--and influenced --the Harlem Renaissance and the Chicago Renaissance of white writers. Despite harsh segregation, black and white thinkers influenced one another particularly through their engagements with leftist organizations. In many ways, politically, racially, spatially, this was a movement invested in cross-pollination, change, and political activism, as much as literature, art, and aesthetics as it prepared the way for the literature of the Black Arts Movement and beyond. The volume begins with a look at Richard Wright, indisputably a central figure in the Black Chicago Renaissance with the publication of "Blueprint for Negro Writing." Wright sought to distance himself from what he considered to be the failures of the Harlem Renaissance, even as he built upon its aesthetic and cultural legacy. Subsequent chapters discuss Robert Abbott, William Attaway, Claude Barnett, Henry Blakely, Aldon Bland, Edward Bland, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Frank London Brown, Alice Browning, Dan Burley, Margaret Danner, Frank Marshall Davis, Katherine Dunham, Richard Durham, Lorraine Hansberry, Fenton Johnson, John Johnson, Marian Minus, Williard Motley, Marita Bonner, Gordon Parks, John Sengstacke, Margaret Walker, Theodore Ward, Frank Yerby, Black newspapers, the Chicago School of Sociologists, the Federal Theater Project, Black Music, and John Reed Clubs"-- ER -