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Author : Amiri Baraka
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613745893
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones written by Amiri Baraka and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete autobiography of a literary legend.
Author : Amiri Baraka
Publisher : New York : Freundlich Books : Distributed to the trade by Scribner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka written by Amiri Baraka and published by New York : Freundlich Books : Distributed to the trade by Scribner. This book was released on 1984 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This prose-poem styled memoir of poet, novelist, playwright and black activist delineates the politics and the personal drama of the man who has dared face injustice with violence and flaunted his pride in black chauvinism. Chronicling the first forty years of his life, the book tells how Jones/Baraka comes into being from his middle-class roots in Newark, and how his journey through Howard University, the Air Force, beat Greenwich Village, incendiary Harlem, polemic Newark and the caverns of his own heart dictated his reaction to a racist society and etched the nuances of his soul. His testimony is an unreplicable view of the recent struggles of black Americans and the society which they have confronted. ISBN 0-88191-000-7 : $16.95.
Author : Komozi Woodard
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807876178
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book A Nation within a Nation written by Komozi Woodard and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-10-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is best known as one of the African American writers who helped ignite the Black Arts Movement. This book examines Baraka's cultural approach to Black Power politics and explores his role in the phenomenal spread of black nationalism in the urban centers of late-twentieth-century America, including his part in the election of black public officials, his leadership in the Modern Black Convention Movement, and his work in housing and community development. Komozi Woodard traces Baraka's transformation from poet to political activist, as the rise of the Black Arts Movement pulled him from political obscurity in the Beat circles of Greenwich Village, swept him into the center of the Black Power Movement, and ultimately propelled him into the ranks of black national political leadership. Moving outward from Baraka's personal story, Woodard illuminates the dynamics and remarkable rise of black cultural nationalism with an eye toward the movement's broader context, including the impact of black migrations on urban ethos, the importance of increasing population concentrations of African Americans in the cities, and the effect of the 1965 Voting Rights Act on the nature of black political mobilization.
Author : Amiri Baraka
Publisher : New York : Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones written by Amiri Baraka and published by New York : Morrow. This book was released on 1979 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing these poems which the author most wants to preserve, this volume summarizes the career to date of the man who has been called "the father of modern black poetry." It confirms Amiri Baraka as one of the major figures of contemporary American poetry.
Author : Imamu Amiri Baraka
Publisher : New York, NY : Thunder's Mouth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560250074
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader written by Imamu Amiri Baraka and published by New York, NY : Thunder's Mouth Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amiri Baraka-dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, & fiction writer-is perhaps the preeminent African-American literary figure of our time. Yet, until now, it has been impossible to find the full range of his work represented in one volume. The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader provides the most comprehensive selection of Baraka's work to date, spanning more than thirty years of a brilliant, prolific, & controversial career in which he has produced a dozen books of poetry, twenty-six plays, eight collections of essays & speeches, & two books of fiction. This essential anthology also contains previously unpublished work-including essays on Jesse Jackson & James Baldwin-as well as a chronology & a full bibliography. The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader includes poems from Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, The Dead Lecturer, Black Magic, Hard Facts, It's Nation Time, & Poetry for the Advanced; the plays Dutchman, Great Goodness of Life, & What Was the Relationship of the Lone Ranger to the Means of Production?; essays from Blues People, Social Essays, Black Music, Daggers & Javelins, & The Music: Reflections on Jazz & Blues; & much, much more.
Author : Amiri Baraka
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520943090
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Digging written by Amiri Baraka and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Amiri Baraka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka written by Amiri Baraka and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including6 Persons, a previously unpublished novel; The System of Dante's Hell; and Tales, this collection also features four uncollected short stories.
Author : Amiri Baraka
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802191584
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book S O S written by Amiri Baraka and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “S O S provides readers with rich, vital views of the African American experience and of Baraka’s own evolution as a poet-activist” (The Washington Post). Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century (The New York Times). Selected by Paul Vangelisti, this volume comprises the fullest spectrum of Baraka’s rousing, revolutionary poems, from his first collection to previously unpublished pieces composed during his final years. Throughout Baraka’s career as a prolific writer (also published as LeRoi Jones), he was vehemently outspoken against oppression of African American citizens, and he radically altered the discourse surrounding racial inequality. The environments and social values that inspired his poetics changed during the course of his life, a trajectory that can be traced in this retrospective spanning more than five decades of profoundly evolving subjects and techniques. Praised for its lyricism and introspection, his early poetry emerged from the Beat generation, while his later writing is marked by 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. A New York Times Editors’ Choice “A big handsome book of Amiri Baraka’s poetry [that gives] us word magic, wit, wild thoughts, discomfort, and pleasure.” —William J. Harris, Boston Review “The most complete representation of over a half-century of revolutionary and breathtaking work.” —Claudia Rankine, The New York Times Book Review
Author : Andrew Epstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190292717
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Beautiful Enemies written by Andrew Epstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it has long been commonplace to imagine the archetypal American poet singing a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with the drama of friendship. In this lucid and absorbing study, Andrew Epstein argues that an obsession with both the pleasures and problems of friendship erupts in the "New American Poetry" that emerges after the Second World War. By focusing on some of the most significant postmodernist American poets--the "New York School" poets John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and their close contemporary Amiri Baraka--Beautiful Enemies reveals a fundamental paradox at the heart of postwar American poetry and culture: the avant-garde's commitment to individualism and nonconformity runs directly counter to its own valorization of community and collaboration. In fact, Epstein demonstrates that the clash between friendship and nonconformity complicates the legendary alliances forged by postwar poets, becomes a predominant theme in the poetry they created, and leaves contemporary writers with a complicated legacy to negotiate. Rather than simply celebrating friendship and poetic community as nurturing and inspiring, these poets represent friendship as a kind of exhilarating, maddening contradiction, a site of attraction and repulsion, affinity and rivalry. Challenging both the reductive critiques of American individualism and the idealized, heavily biographical celebrations of literary camaraderie one finds in much critical discussion, this book provides a new interpretation of the peculiar dynamics of American avant-garde poetic communities and the role of the individual within them. By situating his extensive and revealing readings of these highly influential poets against the backdrop of Cold War cultural politics and within the context of American pragmatist thought, Epstein uncovers the collision between radical self-reliance and the siren call of the interpersonal at the core of postwar American poetry.
Author : Amiri Baraka
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878056873
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (568 download)
Download or read book Conversations with Amiri Baraka written by Amiri Baraka and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews from over the course of the author's career document his views on writing, poetry, drama, and the social role of the writer
Author : LeRoi Jones
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617750506
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Home written by LeRoi Jones and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays of the 1960s by a prominent African American voice who “demands rights—not conditional favors” (The New York Times Book Review). Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was known not only as a poet, playwright, and founder of the Black Arts movement, but also as one of the most provocative voices of the civil rights era and beyond. These pieces, which span the years from 1960 to 1965, cover subjects ranging from Cuba to Malcolm X to street protests and soul food, and are accompanied by the author’s new introduction from 2009.
Author : Letitia Dace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780900859083
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (59 download)
Download or read book LeRoi Jones written by Letitia Dace and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerry Watts
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814793738
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Amiri Baraka written by Jerry Watts and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a chapter sure to prove controversial, Watts links Baraka's famous misogyny to an attempt to bury his own homosexual past."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Amiri Baraka
Publisher : New York : Grove Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dead Lecturer written by Amiri Baraka and published by New York : Grove Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published under the author's earlier name: LeRoi Jones.
Author : Imamu Amiri Baraka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones written by Imamu Amiri Baraka and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amiri Baraka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Raise, Race, Rays, Raze written by Amiri Baraka and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains essays on race relations in America since 1965.
Author : LeRoi Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note... written by LeRoi Jones and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
