Gwendolyn Brooks' Maud Martha: A Critical Collection (Paperback)
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Description
Ten literary experts on the work of Gwendolyn Brooks unite in this collection to provide in-depth analysis on Maud Martha. Through various essays, this volume explores socio-economic implications, the portrayal of the Black family and the Black woman, the contemporary culture in Chicago's Bronzeville, and the literary skills of Brooks.
About the Author
Jacqueline Bryant is an associate professor of English and affiliate faculty member of African American studies at Chicago State University; the author of The Foremother Figure in Early Black Women's Literature: Clothed in My Right Mind; and the editor of Gwendolyn Brooks' Maud Martha: A Critical Collection. Her works have appeared in African American Rhetoric, CLA Journal, Journal of Black Studies, and A Jubilee Project of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church. She lives in Chicago.