A prophet overheard: a juxtapositional reading of Gwendolyn Brooks's "In the Mecca". From: African American Review | Date: June 22, 2004| Author: Hughes, Sheila Hassell | COPYRIGHT 2004 African American Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

As Gwendolyn Brooks's last collection of poetry to be published by a mainstream press (Harper, 1968), and the first to come out of her conversion to the Black Arts Movement, In the Mecca marks the end of one age for the poet, and the beginning of another. Situated in the cramped confines of a slum tenement on Chicago's South Side, the title poem is local--even narrow--in focus. But the work continues to speak beyond both its particular subject and its point of articulation; indeed,...

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