https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/bf5aadad8471ed9104ef492be31d045b.jpg 8e3bdb40f448caf95d1de241c19d19b6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Record detail images Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Maud Martha: A Novel Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gwendolyn Brooks Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Harper & Brothers Publishing, 1953. Description An account of the resource The only novella published by famed Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha is a loosely autobiographical narrative of a black woman growing up in Bronzeville, the hub of the Chicago Renaissance. On the streets of Bronzeville, Brooks interacted with both Langston Hughes and Richard Wright, influential echoes of the Harlem Renaissance. As African American Studies scholar Dr. Barbara Christian highlights, Maud Martha challenged stereotypes and tropes of black womanhood traditionally published in literature, presenting “for the first time a black woman not as a mammy, wench, mulatto or downtrodden heroine, but as an ordinary human being in all the wonder of her complexity.” Unfortunately, Maud Martha has historically remained out of print and lesser known in comparison to Brooks’s poetry collections.