The Image of the Black Woman in Gwendolyn Brooks' Poetry

Abstract

Gwendolyn Brooks is a distinguished African-American poet  of  the  twentieth century. She is a poet of a powerful voice with  which she seeks to help generate a new view, and draw a new image, of  her own as a black woman who is self-conscious of her race, gender and talent, and to help generalize this image. The present paper is an attempt to identify some general outlines of that image .