Author: LeRoi Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The System of Dante's Hell
Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617754145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
“A fevered and impressionistic riff on the struggles of blacks in the urban North and rural South, as told through the prism of The Inferno.” —Kirkus Reviews This 1965 novel is a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, structured on the themes of Dante’s Inferno: violence, incontinence, fraud, and treachery. With a poet’s skill, Baraka creates the atmosphere of hell, and with dramatic power he reconstructs the brutality of the black slums of Newark, a small Southern town, and New York City. The episodes contained within the novel represent both states of mind and states of the soul—lyrical, fragmentary, and allusive. With an introduction by Woodie King Jr. “Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lost motion of the age . . . the special agony of the American Negro.” —The New York Times Book Review “It’s a tortured nightmare, excruciatingly honest and alive, painful and beautiful . . .” —Michael Rumaker, author of A Day and a Night at the Baths
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617754145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
“A fevered and impressionistic riff on the struggles of blacks in the urban North and rural South, as told through the prism of The Inferno.” —Kirkus Reviews This 1965 novel is a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, structured on the themes of Dante’s Inferno: violence, incontinence, fraud, and treachery. With a poet’s skill, Baraka creates the atmosphere of hell, and with dramatic power he reconstructs the brutality of the black slums of Newark, a small Southern town, and New York City. The episodes contained within the novel represent both states of mind and states of the soul—lyrical, fragmentary, and allusive. With an introduction by Woodie King Jr. “Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lost motion of the age . . . the special agony of the American Negro.” —The New York Times Book Review “It’s a tortured nightmare, excruciatingly honest and alive, painful and beautiful . . .” —Michael Rumaker, author of A Day and a Night at the Baths
The Moral System of Dante's Inferno
Author: William Henry Vincent Reade
Publisher: Kennikat Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : la
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher: Kennikat Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : la
Pages : 468
Book Description
The System of Dante's Hell
Freedom Readers
Author: Dennis Looney
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN: 9780268033866
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduction. Canonicity, hybridity, freedom ; Sailing with Dante to the new world ; The Dante wax museum on the frontier, 1828 -- Colored Dante. Dante the Protestant. Abolitionists and nationalists, Americans and Italians ; H. Cordelia Ray, William Wells Brown -- Negro Dante. Educating the people: from Cicero to Du Bois ; African American filmmaker at the gates of Hell ; Spencer Williams ; Dante meets Amos 'n' Andy ; Ralph Waldo Ellison's prophetic vernacular muse -- Black Dante. LeRoi Jones, The system of Dante's hell ; A new narrative model ; Amiri Baraka: From Dante's system to the system -- African American Dante. Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills ; Multicolored, Multicultural Terza Rima ; Toni Morrison, The Bluest eye ; Dante Rap -- Poets in exile.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN: 9780268033866
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduction. Canonicity, hybridity, freedom ; Sailing with Dante to the new world ; The Dante wax museum on the frontier, 1828 -- Colored Dante. Dante the Protestant. Abolitionists and nationalists, Americans and Italians ; H. Cordelia Ray, William Wells Brown -- Negro Dante. Educating the people: from Cicero to Du Bois ; African American filmmaker at the gates of Hell ; Spencer Williams ; Dante meets Amos 'n' Andy ; Ralph Waldo Ellison's prophetic vernacular muse -- Black Dante. LeRoi Jones, The system of Dante's hell ; A new narrative model ; Amiri Baraka: From Dante's system to the system -- African American Dante. Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills ; Multicolored, Multicultural Terza Rima ; Toni Morrison, The Bluest eye ; Dante Rap -- Poets in exile.
Refuge in Hell
Author: Lemmert, Ronald, D.
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608337502
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Without romanticizing the prisoners in his stories, the author--who served for many years as the Catholic chaplain at Sing Sing prison--humanizes them, offers a compelling picture of the reality of an oppressive criminal justice system, and describes the challenge and joy of proclaiming the gospel in such an environment.
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608337502
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Without romanticizing the prisoners in his stories, the author--who served for many years as the Catholic chaplain at Sing Sing prison--humanizes them, offers a compelling picture of the reality of an oppressive criminal justice system, and describes the challenge and joy of proclaiming the gospel in such an environment.
The System of Dante's Hell
The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
Author: Imamu Amiri Baraka
Publisher: New York, NY : Thunder's Mouth Press
ISBN: 9781560250074
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
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.
Publisher: New York, NY : Thunder's Mouth Press
ISBN: 9781560250074
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
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.
Hell Unearthed
Author: Hilary McElwaine
Publisher: Action Publishing Technology Limited
ISBN: 9781789632316
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This modern adaptation of Dante's inferno reveals a cast of largely contemporary wrongdoers including real and fictional characters. The book poses questions about social values, society and how we measure right and wrong.
Publisher: Action Publishing Technology Limited
ISBN: 9781789632316
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This modern adaptation of Dante's inferno reveals a cast of largely contemporary wrongdoers including real and fictional characters. The book poses questions about social values, society and how we measure right and wrong.
The System of Dante's Hell
Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher: Akashiclassics: Renegade Repri
ISBN: 9781617753961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A remarkable narrative of childhood and youth's spiraling out of Dante's Inferno."--
Publisher: Akashiclassics: Renegade Repri
ISBN: 9781617753961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A remarkable narrative of childhood and youth's spiraling out of Dante's Inferno."--
The System of Dante's Hell
Author: Imamu Amiri Baraka
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780802140074
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780802140074
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description