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1 y separately published work icon Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States, 1960s-1980s Ameer Chasib Furaih , London : Anthem Press , 2022 22943828 2022 single work criticism 'Aboriginal poets Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker; 1920-1993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958-), and African American poets Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones; 1934-2004), and Sonia Sanchez (1934-) were prominent in the struggles of their peoples during the civil rights movements of the 1960s and beyond. Fogarty and Sanchez are still politically engaged. Their poetries display common elements that enable a transcontinental comparative reading. This book scrutinizes the poetries of these poets to demonstrate their role in the struggle for civil and human rights of their peoples during this period. The book aims to show how these poets collaborated with other civil rights activists in voicing the demands of their peoples, and how they used their poetry to reflect the realities they experienced and to imagine new possibilities. This close, comparative analysis shows how these poets developed a distinctive rhetoric of resistance that drew on the ideas of Malcolm X, Frantz Fanon, and the language of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This book also highlights how, through poeticizing some of the milestone events in their histories, these poets revive their peoples' own history. This qualitative study is grounded in a comparative analysis of content which examines how these writers demonstrate compositional and structural similarities and differences in their poetries, despite their responses to relatively distinct literary and political influences.' 

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1 'Let No One Say the Past Is Dead' : History Wars and the Poetry of Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Sonia Sanchez Ameer Chasib Furaih , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , June vol. 25 no. 1 2018; (p. 163-176)

'The histories of Australian Aboriginal and African American peoples have been disregarded for more than two centuries. In the 1960s, Aboriginal and African American civil rights activists addressed this neglect. Each endeavoured to write a critical version of history that included their people(s). This article highlights the role of Aboriginal Australian poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker) (1920–93) and African American poet Sonia Sanchez (born 1934) in reviving their peoples’ history. Using Deleuze and Guattari's concept of ‘minor literature’, the essay shows how these poets deterritorialise the English language and English poetry and exploit their own poetries as counter-histories to record milestone events in the history of their peoples. It will also highlight the importance of these accounts in this ‘history war’. It examines selected poems from Oodgeroo's My People: A Kath Walker Collection and Sanchez's Home Coming and We A BaddDDD People to demonstrate that similarities in their poetic themes are the result of a common awareness of a global movement of black resistance. This shared awareness is significant despite the fact that the poets have different ethnicities and little direct literary impact upon each other.'

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1 ‘For Their Fights Affect Our Fights’ : The Impact of African American Poetics and Politics on the Poetry of Lionel Fogarty Ameer Chasib Furaih , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 17 no. 1 2017;

'Aboriginal Australian and African American poets of the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s and beyond were prominent in the connected struggles of their peoples. The poetry of some of these poets displays common elements that enable a comparative reading of their work. This essay traces the influence of poets from the African American Black Arts movement on the work of Aboriginal Australian poet Lionel Fogarty (born 1958). It proposes that the radical poetic structures of Fogarty’s poems share common features with those of African American poets such as Everett LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka) (1934-2014) and Sonia Sanchez (born 1934). The explicitly militant tone in many of these poems can also be linked to the ideas of Malcolm Little (later Malcolm X). The essay examines the role of poetry in the political struggle of Aboriginal and African American communities and addresses issues of literary sovereignty by placing Aboriginal poetry within a transitional discourse concerning the struggle for civil rights.'  (Publication abstract)
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