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The first half of this volume is the title poem In the Mecca. Taking place at the Mecca housing building for which the poem gets its name, Brooks focuses on three generations of African Americans who live there. It is the 1960s on the south side of Chicago on the eve of the civil rights act.
19 de oct. de 2011 · In the Mecca; poems. by. Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-. Publication date. 1968. Topics. African Americans. Publisher. New York, Harper & Row.
In full: Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks. Born: June 7, 1917, Topeka, Kansas, U.S. Died: December 3, 2000, Chicago, Illinois (aged 83) Awards And Honors: Pulitzer Prize. Notable Works: “A Street in Bronzeville” “Annie Allen” “Blacks” “Children Coming Home” “In the Mecca” “Primer for Blacks” “Report from Part One” “Report from Part Two” “Selected Poems”
In the Mecca centers on the Mecca Flats apartment complex in Chicago but also expands beyond it, connecting the disillusioned inhabitants of the dilapidated building to people suffering the conditions of racism everywhere.
In the Mecca Hardcover – January 1, 1968. by Gwendolyn Brooks (Author) 5.0 7 ratings. See all formats and editions. Contains a long narrative poem reflecting life in Chicago's Negro ghetto and 9 shorter poems based on contemporary figures and events. Length. 55. Pages. Language. EN. English. Publisher. Harper & Row Publishers. Publication date.
in In the Mecca and afterwards is the attempt to portray the communal as well as the personal sig-nificance of characters and situations. Where her earliest work for the most part probed the private experience, dramatizing the strength and weakness of individuals confronting hostile cir-cumstances, these later works attempt to discover
Linguistically, In the Mecca juxtaposes standard English with the vernacular and the language of the streets. This collection of primarily free verse poems is dominated by the long title poem, “In the Mecca”, which begins with biblical overtones: “Now the way of the Mecca was on this wise.”
