Description
About the Author
James Smethurst is professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance.
Reviews
"Once again, with Brick City Vanguard, James Smethurst proves that he is one of the leading scholars of the Black Arts Movement, of New Left literary studies, and of one of its emblematic writers, Amiri Baraka."- Jean-Philippe Marcoux, cofounder of the Amiri Baraka Society and author of Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem;
"James Smethurst has read everything on Baraka and produced an original and important book. Brick City Vanguard is a major contribution to the field."- William J. Harris, author of The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka: The Jazz Aesthetic;
"An illuminating work about a central figure in the Black Arts Movement."- CHOICE.
Book Information
ISBN 9781625345158
Author James Smethurst
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint University of Massachusetts Press
Publisher University of Massachusetts Press
Weight(grams) 395g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 17mm