Annie Allen (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
- First Published: 1949
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric sequence, Sonnet
- Subjects: African Americans, Girls, Maturation or coming of age, Self-discovery, Mothers, Parents and children, Racism, Marriage, Women’s issues, Adultery, Widows or widowers
Critical Evaluation:
With the publication of her second book of poetry, Annie Allen, Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize. The blackness-nourishing collection is arranged in three parts: “Notes from the Childhood and the Girlhood,” “The Anniad” (which includes the long poem of that title and two short works as “Appendix to the Anniad”), and “The Womanhood.” As the titles imply, each section of the book corresponds to a stage in the life of Annie Allen.
Brooks is securely anchored in the African...
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Gwendolyn Brooks (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Gwendolyn Brooks (Poetry)Gwendolyn Brooks (Sixties in America)Gwendolyn Brooks (Identities and Issues)
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