Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States, 1960s1980s
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States, 1960s1980s
By (Author) Ameer Chasib Furaih
Anthem Press
Anthem Press
3rd September 2024
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Comparative literature
Literary theory
811.54093581
Physical Properties
Hardback
270
Width 153mm, Height 229mm, Spine 20mm
454g
Description
Aboriginal poets Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker; 19201993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958), and African American poets Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones; 19342004), and Sonia Sanchez (1934) were prominent in the struggles of their peoples during the civil rights movements of the 1960s and beyond. This book scrutinizes the poetries of these poets to demonstrate their role in the struggle for civil and human rights of their peoples during this period. The book aims to show how these poets collaborated with other civil rights activists in voicing the demands of their people, and how they used their poetry to reflect the realities they experienced and to imagine new possibilities.
Author Bio
Ameer Chasib Furaih is an instructor at Baghdad University/ College of Education (Ibn Rushd) for Humanitarian Sciences
