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Black Aesthetic movementor Black Arts movementPeriod of artistic and literary development among black Americans in the 1960s and early '70s. Based on the cultural politics of black nationalism, the movement sought to create art forms capable of expressing the varieties of black experience in the U.S. Leading theorists included Amiri Baraka, Houston Baker (b. 1943), and Henry Louis Gates. Don L. Lee (b. 1942), known as Haki R. Madhubuti after 1973, was one of its most popular writers; other notable writers included Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Ntozake Shange (b. 1948). The movement also produced such autobiographical works as The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965; with Alex Haley), Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice (1968), and Angela Davis: An Autobiography (1974). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Prominent younger activists and writers in their twenties and thirties involved with the Civil Rights movement as well as the nascent Black Arts Movement had material that appeared in the publication alongside salient strategy pieces by older and less prominent figures such as Jack O'Dell, Robert Browne, John Henrik Clarke, and Ernest Kaiser, who by the early 1960s were in or approaching their 40s and 50s. Recently I watched an undergraduate endeavor to explain the rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement as it existed in the 1960s and early 70s. The first thing that becomes evident is Steptoe's thematic range and his poetic style, which reaches from the Black Arts Movement to the Neo-School of modernist poets who will shape literature in the 21st century. |
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