Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s
Jonathan Fenderson
Abstract
This book is the first to document and analyze Hoyt Fuller’s profound influence on the Black Arts movement. Using historical snapshots of Fuller’s life and activism as a means to rethink the period, Building the Black Arts Movement provides a fresh take on the general trajectory of African American literary (and cultural) studies as the field developed over the course of two explosive decades in the mid-twentieth century. The book argues that the Black Arts movement can be understood as a pivotal and volatile moment in the long history of America’s culture wars. Moreover, by shifting our focus ... More
Keywords: Black Arts movement, cultural politics, African American literature, Black Power, Negro Digest, Pan-Africanism, Sexuality, print culture, the black aesthetic, Black counterpublic
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 | Print ISBN-13: 9780252042430 |
| Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: September 2019 | DOI:10.5622/illinois/9780252042430.001.0001 |
