Gwendolyn Brooks' Maud Martha: A Critical Edition Book

	Of Mama and Maud: A Foreword	ix
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Chronology	xv
	Introduction: Home	1
1	Maud Martha, Bronzeville Boys and Girls	13
2	Gwendolyn Brooks' Maud Martha: Jivin' as Modernist Aesthetic in a Black Midwest Novel	33
3	Regional and Regal: Chicago's Extraordinary Maud Martha	41
4	The Aliveness of Things: Nature in Maud Martha	69
5	The Rhetorical Power of Gwendolyn Brooks' Maud Martha	90
6	Brooksian Poetic Elegance in Maud Martha	105
7	Understanding Maud Martha through an Africana Womanist Conception: Notions of Self and Gender (Mis)Communications	115
8	Black is Not Gray: Maud Martha as an Argument for Social Equality	136
9	Selfhood Revealed: Daughterhood, Motherhood and Silences in Maud Martha	147
10	Maud Martha Brown: A Study in Emergence	161
	Contributors	183
	Secondary Readings on Gwendolyn Brooks'	188
	Index	190