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
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 System of Dante's Hell
The System of Dante's Hell
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
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."--
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.
System of Dante's Hell
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 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