Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-207) and index.
Contents:
Dialectics of desire : war and the resistive voice in Gwendolyn Brooks's Negro hero and Gay chaps at the bar / Ann Folwell Stanford. The role of violence in recent poems of Gwendolyn Brooks / William H. Hansell -- Gwendolyn Brooks's way with the sonnet / Gladys Margaret Williams -- Rage and silence in Gwendolyn Brooks' Maud Martha / Mary Helen Washington -- Gwendolyn Brooks's A street in Bronzeville, the Harlem Renaissance and the mythologies of Black women / Gary Smith -- Dual vision in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha / Patricia H. Lattin and Vernon E. Lattin -- Later works / D.H. Melhem -- Anger so flat : Gwendolyn Brooks's Annie Allen / Claudia Tate -- Maud Martha : the war with beauty / Harry B. Shaw -- "Chocolate Mabbie" and Pearl May Lee" : Gwendolyn Brooks and the ballad tradition / Maria K. Mootry -- Making it really new : Hilda Doolittle, Gwendolyn Brooks, and the feminist potential of modern poetry / Gertrude Reif Hughes -- Gwendlyn Brooks : an essential sanity / Henry Taylor -- Dialectics of desire : war and the resistive voice in Gwendolyn Brooks's Negro hero and Gay chaps at the bar / Ann Folwell Stanford.
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