African American nationalist literature of the 1960s Book

	Introduction
	Acknowledgments
	List of Illustrations
	List of Abbreviations
1	The Many Shades of Black Nationalism	3
	Confronting Ambiguity	3
	Profusion and Confusion: The Problem of Categorization	9
	Ideology and the Political Climate	13
	Out of One, Many	26
2	Cultural and Revolutionary Nationalism: The Dominant Variants	31
	Ideology Held in Common	38
	Cultural Nationalism	42
	Revolutionary Nationalism	52
	An Attempt at Reconciliation	58
3	Creativity and Politics	65
	The Conjunction of Individual and Group Vision	67
	Literary Expression and Political Philosophy	69
	Artistic Technique	71
4	Nationalist Poetry	77
	Redefining Blackness and Rejecting White Judgments of Worth	80
	Capitalism and the Black Middle Class	82
	Police and the Black Community	83
	Hypocrisy and the American Ideal	85
	Integrity of the Nationalist Movement	86
	Importance of Sanchez as Nationalist Poet	92
5	Nationalist Theater	95
	Ways of Describing Black Theater	95
	Distinctions Between Nationalist and Mainstream Black Theater	96
	The Quest for Artistic Control	100
	Control of Material Resources	104
	Origins and Major Influences	105
	Illustrative Works and Themes	108
	The Passing of an Era	124
6	Nationalist Fiction	131
	The Bluest Eye	132
	The Spook Who Sat by the Door	136
	"A Revolutionary Tale"	141
	Fiction's Place in Nationalism	144
	Conclusion	147
	References	159
	Index	171