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Bad Men

Creative Touchstones of Black Writers

By: Howard Rambsy II.

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Bad Men

Creative Touchstones of Black Writers

By: Howard Rambsy II.

How have African American writers drawn on "bad" black men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art? This is the question posed by Howard Rambsy’s new book, which explores bad men as a central, recurring, and understudied figure in African American literature and music. By focusing on how various iterations of the bad black man figure serve as creative muse and inspiration for literary production, Rambsy puts a wide variety of contemporary African American literary and cultural works in conversation with creativity research for the first time. Employing concepts such as playfulness, productivity, divergent thinking, and problem finding, Rambsy examines the works of a wide range of writers—including Elizabeth Alexander, Amiri Baraka, Paul Beatty, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tyehimba Jess, Trymaine Lee, Adrian Matejka, Aaron McGruder, Evie Shockley, and Kevin Young—who have drawn on notions of bad black men and boys to create innovative and challenging works in a variety of genres. Through groundbreaking readings, Rambsy demonstrates the fruitfulness of viewing black literary art through the lens of creativity research.

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The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry

By: Howard Rambsy

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The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which the Black Arts Movement’s poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers, and others) operated and of the small presses and literary anthologies that first published the movement’s authors. The book also describes the role of the Black Arts Movement in reintroducing readers to poets such as Langston Hughes, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker, and Phillis Wheatley. Focusing on the material production of Black Arts poetry, the book combines genetic criticism with cultural history to shed new light on the period, its publishing culture, and the writing and editing practices of its participants. Howard Rambsy II demonstrates how significant circulation and format of black poetic texts—not simply their content—were to the formation of an artistic movement. The book goes on to examine other significant influences on the formation of Black Arts discourse, including such factors as an emerging nationalist ideology and figures such as John Coltrane and Malcolm X.

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Bad Men

Creative Touchstones of Black Writers

By: Howard Rambsy II.

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Creative Touchstones of Black Writers

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Delicious, Delectable, and Dehydrated!

By: Howard Rambsy, Sr.

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Delicious, Delectable, and Dehydrated!

By: Howard Rambsy, Sr.

A user-friendly guide for home dehydration of fruits, vegetables, meats, and more with an electric dehydrator.

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0985990902

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PIG BOY THE GENESIS

By: Howard Rambsy, Sr.

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PIG BOY THE GENESIS

By: Howard Rambsy, Sr.

A journey through the days of growing up in rural Mississippi in the 1950's. A look at the sad, the happy, the cruel, and the joy of living in a not so perfect world. A mixture of folklore, reality, and the fantasy side of life as seen through the eyes of a child. A look at relationships between family, races, and communities at a time when nothing was perfect. A look at what it took to survive when survival was not promised to anyone. A look at life in a time and place that will never again be.

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The People From Suavatooky A Brief History of The Jeffries and Nunnally Family

By: Dr. Portia Hegmon,Howard Rambsy, Sr.

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The People From Suavatooky A Brief History of The Jeffries and Nunnally Family

By: Dr. Portia Hegmon,Howard Rambsy, Sr.

By the time that Mary had matured into a young woman, her unique living experiences had caused her to learn and later share with her children and grandchildren much about her hometown. In 1926 Lougean gave birth to her youngest child Emily. Though Emily was not the first or the last child to be born in her generation, Mary Jeffries saw a special sign in the birth of this child. With the birth of Emily, Mary's storytelling to the family began to go in directions never before approached. This was in part due to the fact that the old courthouse in Holly Springs had undergone reconstruction in the year of Emily's birth and Mary saw this a s a sign that the city would live forever and Emily's birth was a sign that the family would also live forever." -- back cover.

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1300419814

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Pig Boy Before The Genesis

By: Howard Rambsy, Sr.

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Pig Boy Before The Genesis

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This is the story of African Americans going south to find freedom in the early 1800's as told by a Great Grandmother in rural Mississippi in the 1950's. The events taking place in this story are all based on historical facts. In truth this is much more than the stories of an aged great grandmother, but this story is a part of forgotten American history.

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The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry

By: Howard Rambsy

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The outpouring of creative expression known as the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s spawned a burgeoning number of black-owned cultural outlets, including publishing houses, performance spaces, and galleries. Central to the movement were its poets, who in concert with editors, visual artists, critics, and fellow writers published a wide range of black verse and advanced new theories and critical approaches for understanding African American literary art. The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which BAM's poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers, and others) operated and of the small presses and literary anthologies that first published the movement's authors. The book also describes the role of the Black Arts Movement in reintroducing readers to poets such as Langston Hughes, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker, and Phillis Wheatley. Focusing on the material production of Black Arts poetry, the book combines genetic criticism with cultural history to shed new light on the period, its publishing culture, and the writing and editing practices of its participants. Howard Rambsy II demonstrates how significant circulation and format of black poetic texts—not simply their content—were to the formation of an artistic movement. The book goes on to examine other significant influences on the formation of Black Arts discourse, including such factors as an emerging nationalist ideology and figures such as John Coltrane and Malcolm X.

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0472120050

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Bad Men

Bad Men

The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry

The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry

Bad Men

Bad Men

Delicious, Delectable, and Dehydrated!

Delicious, Delectable, and Dehydrated!

PIG BOY THE GENESIS

PIG BOY THE GENESIS

The People From Suavatooky A Brief History of The Jeffries and Nunnally Family

The People From Suavatooky A Brief History of The Jeffries and Nunnally Family

Pig Boy Before The Genesis

Pig Boy Before The Genesis

The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry

The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry

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