Spatial Narratives and National Identity: a Study of the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks

About This Novel

National identity is one of the important topics of current concern in the field of social sciences. The national identity of the United States includes civil identity and national identity. It has long adhered to the orthodoxy of WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) as the national identity, and granted citizenship to ethnic minorities based on their degree of naturalization, making the country an exclusive and hierarchical political community, causing conflicts among African Americans in national identity. Gwendolyn Brooks is an important African American poet in the 20th century. "Flowers of Fury" is a metaphorical summary of her poetic life: her exquisite skills integrating modernism and black dialect tradition, and her radical thoughts that actively intervene in black liberation. This book systematically combs Brooks' poetry creation spanning the 1940s to the 1990s, combining the race relations model, black social movements, racial political trends in the United States in different periods, as well as the poet's own poetic evolution, summarizing the spatial form, spatial experience, and spatial cognition in a specific period, and expounding the different demands and strategic construction of national identity directed by spatial narratives. Through Brooks's consistent research on the dynamic relationship between spatial narrative and national identity, this book summarizes the poet's artistic aesthetics, poetic concepts, and social thoughts, and uses this as a prism to examine the issue of national identity in contemporary American society and its historical evolution.

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