"I Got the Cell Count Blues:" Danez Smith, HIV, and the Legacy of the Black Arts Movement
This paper connects Danez Smith’s collection of poems Don’t Call Us Dead (2017) to writing by the poet’s predecessors in the Black Arts Movement. I argue that Smith’s expression of HIV in their poetry continues and updates the denunciation of mass incarceration of, as well as structural violence aga...
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| Language: | English |
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Università degli Studi di Torino
2019-12-01
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| Series: | JAm It! |
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| Online Access: | https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/jamit/article/view/3200 |