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Index
The Whiskey of Our Discontent
Foreword: This Gwensister Called Life
Preface
Introduction
Critical Essays
Hacking at the Root: Brooks’s Exploration of Colorism in Maud Martha
Juxtaposed Dichotomies: The Idealized White Suburban Pastoral, the Surrealist Tableau of Black Poverty, and the Women in Between
A Poetics against Obscuring: Reflections on the Black Underclass in the Work of Gwendolyn Brooks
The Politics of Neglect
We Still Cool? Revisiting Black Masculinity, Resistance, and Urban Violence in Brooks’s “We Real Cool”
Double Vision: Innocence and Experience in the Childlike Monologues of Gwendolyn Brooks
“I Do Not Sell Well”: Black Women Decentered in the Black Arts Movement
Building an Architecture of Love: An Appreciation of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “In Montgomery”
“Velvety Velour” and Other Sonnet Textures in Gwendolyn Brooks’s “the children of the poor”
The Form of Paradox: Gwendolyn Brooks’s “The Anniad”
Art “Urges Voyages”: Sense of Self as Social Change in Gwendolyn Brooks’s “The Crazy Woman” and “Song of Winnie”
Gwendolyn Brooks: On Rioting and Riot—a Symposium
Mundane and Plural: “Riot”
Brooks’s Prosody: Three Sermons on the Warpland
The Eros in Democracy: “An Aspect of Love, Alive in Ice and Fire”
Personal and Creative Reflections
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Deliberate
Family Pictures, Old New
Breaking Glass and the Sad Shatter of Hope
The Necessary Truth
Jazz June
Gwendolyn Brooks and Me: How I Discovered the Golden Shovel
Our Black Ms. Brooks
Blacks: A Permission to Be Blk.
A Moment with Ms. Brooks
Legacy
Pulitzer Jury Report: February 1950
Concealed and Carried: Brooks’s Loaded Boxes
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Bibliography
Online Resources
Notes
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