Muddying Clear Waters
Muddying Clear Waters
Carolyn Rodgers’s Black Art
This chapter discusses Carolyn Rodgers’s poetic works in her poetry collections, including Paper Soul (1968) and Songs of a Black Bird (1969). It explains that Rodgers’ poetry showed that the concept of Black Art was not a “fixed” one, but rather, something that varies and changes its form, function, and meaning with each piece of work produced by African American artists. In her first poetic works, Rodgers pointed out that the goal of defining the role of the Black Arts writer continued to be an essential preoccupation for self-acclaimed Black Arts Movement participants, as the movement wanted writers to position themselves within unwavering spaces of political expression and cultural representation.
Keywords: poetry, political expression, cultural representation, Black Arts Movement, Carolyn Rodgers, Paper Soul, Songs of a Black Bird, African American artists
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