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The complete autobiography of a literary legend. Poet, dramatist,
novelist, critic, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka,
born LeRoi Jones, vividly recounts his crusading role in African
American literature. A driving force behind the Black Arts
Movement, the prolific Baraka retells his experiences from his
participation in avant-garde literature after World War II and his
role in Black nationalism after the assassination of Malcolm X to
his conversion to Islam and his commitments to an international
socialist vision. When "The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones" was first
published in 1984, the publisher made substantial cuts in the copy.
Under the careful direction of the author, the book has been
restored to its original form. This is the first complete and
unexpurgated version of Baraka's life and work.
The sum total of three hundred years of contained fury, these four
plays are powerful statements about the real meaning of white
oppression of black people. in their militancy and anger, they
perfectly express the mood and frustrations of black America.
One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books WITH AN
APPENDIX OF NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED WORK Fusing the personal and the
political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka was one of the
preeminent literary innovators of the past century. This volume
comprises the fullest spectrum of his rousing, revolutionary poems,
from his first collection to unpublished pieces composed during his
final years. Throughout Baraka's career as a prolific writer in
several genres (also published under the name LeRoi Jones), he was
vehemently outspoken against oppression of African American
citizens, and he radically altered the discourse surrounding racial
inequality. His legacy in world literature is matched by his
widespread influence as an activist and cultural leader. Praised
for its lyricism and introspection, his early poetry emerged from
the Beat generation, while his later writing is marked by the Black
Arts Movement's intensely rebellious fervor and subversive
ideology. All along, his primary focus was on how to live and love
in the present moment despite the enduring difficulties of human
history.
"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... [If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music." So says Amiri Baraka in the Introduction to Blues People, his classic work on the place of jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history. From the music of African slaves in the United States through the music scene of the 1960's, Baraka traces the influence of what he calls "negro music" on white America -- not only in the context of music and pop culture but also in terms of the values and perspectives passed on through the music. In tracing the music, he brilliantly illuminates the influence of African Americans on American culture and history.
For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most
important commentators on African American music and culture. In
this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such
collection in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography,
history, musical analysis, and political commentary to recall the
sounds, people, times, and places he's encountered. As in his
earlier classics, "Blues People "and "Black Music, "Baraka offers
essays on the famous--Max Roach, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John
Coltrane--and on those whose names are known mainly by jazz
aficionados--Alan Shorter, Jon Jang, and Malachi Thompson. Baraka's
literary style, with its deep roots in poetry, makes palpable his
love and respect for his jazz musician friends. His energy and
enthusiasm show us again how much Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and the
others he lovingly considers mattered. He brings home to us how
music itself matters, and how musicians carry and extend that
knowledge from generation to generation, providing us, their
listeners, with a sense of meaning and belonging.
In the grand, narrative tradition of Gwendolyn Brooks and Edward
Sanders, this riveting collection of poetic plays and
photo-documentary poems exposes the human cost of corporate greed
and gives voice to the growing crisis faced in communities across
America. "The several long poems that make up this book build into
each other with devastating force and understatement, breaking
poetic boundaries, regenerating the rich tradition of working-class
literature."-Adrienne Rich Mark Nowak is the author of the
critically acclaimed debut book of poems Revenants, the editor of
Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics and the co-editor of Visit Teepee Town:
Native Writings After the Detours. He grew up in Buffalo, New York
and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he is active in the labor
movement.
Amiri Baraka - dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction
writer - is one of the preeminent African-American literary figures
of our time. The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader provides the most
comprehensive selection of Baraka's work to date, spanning almost
40 years of a brilliant, prolific, and controversial career, in
which he has produced more than 12 books of poetry, 26 plays, eight
collections of essays and speeches, and two books of fiction. This
updated edition contains over 50 pages of previously unpublished
work, as well as a chronology and full bibliography.
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Amiri Baraka
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Comprised of short stories spanning the early 1970s to the 21st
century, this collection reflects the astounding evolution in
America's most provocative literary anti-hero.
This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of
African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the
early years of slavery to the end of the twentieth century. The
essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here,
contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable and
Mullings, introduce the reader to the character and important
controversies of each period of black history. The selections
represent a broad spectrum of ideology. Conservative, radical,
nationalistic, and integrationist approaches can be found in almost
every period, yet there have been striking shifts in the evolution
of social thought and activism. The editors judiciously illustrate
how both continuity and change affected the African-American
community in terms of its internal divisions, class structure,
migration, social problems, leadership, and protest movements. They
also show how gender, spirituality, literature, music, and
connections to Africa and the Caribbean played a prominent role in
black life and history.
This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of
African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the
early years of slavery to the end of the twentieth century. The
essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here,
contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable and
Mullings, introduce the reader to the character and important
controversies of each period of black history. The selections
represent a broad spectrum of ideology. Conservative, radical,
nationalistic, and integrationist approaches can be found in almost
every period, yet there have been striking shifts in the evolution
of social thought and activism. The editors judiciously illustrate
how both continuity and change affected the African-American
community in terms of its internal divisions, class structure,
migration, social problems, leadership, and protest movements. They
also show how gender, spirituality, literature, music, and
connections to Africa and the Caribbean played a prominent role in
black life and history.
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