Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal by Kate Dossett (review)

IF 0.3 3区文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN

AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1353/afa.2022.0011

S. Rutkowski

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Abstract

experimental jazz “reimaginings” informed from the beginning by Baraka’s Marxist Black poetics. Among this book’s many fascinating discussions are those about Amina Baraka’s contributions to her husband’s mapping of Black Newark. She not only worked practically on behalf of the Newark-based political and cultural organizations with which he was identified (e.g., Spirit House, the Committee for a Unified Newark, and the Congress of African People) but also introduced him to a “Black Arts Newark that was resolutely proletarian and firmly rooted in the city” (44). Equally interesting are Smethurst’s discussions of Black Newark speech. Drawing on a variety of sources, he puts Baraka and his Southern-born parents in a conversation about the sounds of this speech and about its historical origins. In these sections and others, Brick City Vanguard equips readers to take seriously, at long last, the entire career of a major writer-activist, one whose abiding concerns remain before us today.

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《新政中的激进黑人戏剧》凯特·多塞特著(书评)

实验爵士乐的“重新想象”从一开始就受到巴拉卡的马克思主义黑人诗学的影响。在这本书的许多引人入胜的讨论中，有一些是关于阿米娜·巴拉卡对她丈夫绘制黑人纽瓦克地图的贡献。她不仅实际地为纽瓦克的政治和文化组织工作(例如，精神之家、统一纽瓦克委员会和非洲人民大会)，而且还向他介绍了一个“坚决无产阶级的、牢牢扎根于城市的黑艺术纽瓦克”(44)。同样有趣的是斯梅瑟斯特对黑人纽瓦克演讲的讨论。利用各种资料，他让巴拉卡和他出生在南方的父母就这篇演讲的声音和它的历史起源进行了对话。在这些章节和其他章节中，《砖城先锋》终于让读者能够认真地看待一位重要的作家兼活动家的整个职业生涯，他的关注点今天仍然摆在我们面前。

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期刊介绍： As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, the quarterly journal African American Review promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture. Between 1967 and 1976, the journal appeared under the title Negro American Literature Forum and for the next fifteen years was titled Black American Literature Forum. In 1992, African American Review changed its name for a third time and expanded its mission to include the study of a broader array of cultural formations.