{"product_id":"black-saturation-hazel-arnett-ervin-9781496855084","title":"Black Saturation: Selected Works of Stephen E. Henderson","description":"Committed to developing frameworks for defining and evaluating Black poetry, literary scholar Stephen E. Henderson (1925-1997) examined the question: What makes a poem \u003ci\u003eBlack\u003c\/i\u003e? In his critical approach, Henderson prioritized form but not at the expense of source, function, or context, and, in so doing, developed convincing theoretical frameworks for examining African American lyric expressions, especially that of Black Arts poets. \u003ci\u003eBlack Saturation: Selected Works of Stephen E. Henderson\u003c\/i\u003e is designed to expand and enrich understandings of Henderson's critical corpus by showcasing many of his most essential essays, presentations, and syllabi in a standalone volume. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Henderson deftly conceptualized the ways in which aesthetic innovations were interwoven with revolutionary exigencies--a marriage of poetry and politics that became a hallmark of the 1960s and '70s. While other critics often ignored or fumbled to construct an adequate rubric for evaluating and celebrating Black Arts poetry--penned by Amiri Baraka, Carolyn Rodgers, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Mari Evans, Sarah Webster Fabio, Haki Madhubuti, and Larry Neal, among many others--Henderson constellated a triad of interdependent characteristics (structure, theme, and saturation) through which he examined Black literature in general and poetry in particular. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Revisiting Henderson's scholarship in the third decade of the twenty-first century allows us, on the one hand, to further appreciate his imprint on current scholarship about Black literature, especially poetry, and, on the other, to introduce contemporary students and scholars to his salient theoretical frameworks, not to mention his persuasive critical style.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hazel Arnett Ervin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496855086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496855084\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Hazel Arnett Ervin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46526643634431,"sku":"9781496855084","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_70f3de19-b660-457b-890f-a96c2fd6c1f3.jpg?v=1737556762","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-saturation-hazel-arnett-ervin-9781496855084","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}