Warpland Trilogy and the Issue of Nationalism in Black Power Movement
Warpland trilogy was created in the turbulent 1960s in which Civil Rights Movement turned to Black Power Movement,and Gwendolyn Brooks also took a radical turn in her literary career.Both turns were fueled by the same ideological shift from integrationist to nationalism.Brooks's poetic turn has become a focal point in Brooks scholarship;moreover,it provides a vantage point from which the shift of African American political ideology in the 1960s could be better examined.This paper resituates Warpland trilogy in its wider historical context to elaborate its logic transition from political theology to Black Power,and to secular rationalism.It can be demonstrated that Warpland trilogy explores multifaceted political connotation of black nationalism with corresponding chronotopes.This paper argues that Brooks's"conservatism"in racial politics indicates the trend of black nationalism,namely black nationalism,has been mainly assimilated in American liberal narrative and took the form of ethnic pluralism,which wedded political pluralism to cultural pluralism.
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