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…1963, followed in 1968 by In the Mecca, half of which is a long narrative poem about people in the Mecca, a vast, fortresslike apartment building erected on the South Side of Chicago in 1891, which had long since deteriorated into a place of serious neglect and poverty.
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In the Mecca is the first volume of poetry that Brooks wrote in ten years following the publication of Maud Martha. This slim volume shows the author's maturity and speaks to the changing African American experience. The first half of this volume is the title poem In the Mecca.
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Linguistically, In the Mecca juxtaposes standard English with the vernacular and the language of the streets. This collection of primarily free verse poems is dominated by the long title poem, “In the Mecca”, which begins with biblical overtones: “Now the way of the Mecca was on this wise.”
In the Mecca centers on the Mecca Flats apartment complex in Chicago but also expands beyond it, connecting the disillusioned inhabitants of the dilapidated building to people suffering the conditions of racism everywhere.
Mecca (/ ˈ m ɛ k ə /; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.
