Author: Amiri BarakaPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The System of Dante's Hell ; Tales ; The Dead Lecturer
Author: Amiri BarakaThree Books by Imamu Amiri Baraka
Author: Amiri BarakaAmiri Baraka
Author: Jerry WattsPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814793738
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
In a chapter sure to prove controversial, Watts links Baraka's famous misogyny to an attempt to bury his own homosexual past."--BOOK JACKET.
Heroism in the New Black Poetry
Author: D.H. MelhemPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813189888
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
D.H. Melhem's clear introductions and frank interviews provide insight into the contemporary social and political consciousness of six acclaimed poets: Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jayne Cortez, Haki R. Madhubuti, Dudley Randall, and Sonia Sanchez. Since the 1960s, the poet hero has characterized a significant segment of Black American poetry. The six poets interviewed here have participated in and shaped the vanguard of this movement. Their poetry reflects the critical alternatives of African American life—separatism and integration, feminism and sexual identity, religion and spirituality, humanism and Marxism, nationalism and internationalism. They unite in their commitment to Black solidarity and advancement.
The Postmoderns
Author: Donald AllenPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802150356
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This anthology includes many of the major poets to have emerged and gained pre-eminence since World War II, and whose writing reflects not only the significant changes in this nation's postwar history, and the coming to grips with a nuclear age, but also an entirely new way of looking at and structuring reality. United by their "postmodernist" concerns with spontaneity, "instantism," formal and syntactic flexibility, and the revelation of both the creator and the process through the writing itself, these 38 poets represent very diverse strains of an essential American individualism. Included are many of the poets whose work first gained widespread national attention with the 1960 publication of The New American Poetry: Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Blackburn, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan, and others. Among the poets included here for the first time are Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima, Ed Sanders, Jerome Rothenberg, and James Koller. In addition to a new preface by Allen and Butterick, the book provides autobiographical notes of all the poets and listings of their major works.
By These Hands
Author: Anthony B. PinnPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814766722
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This anthology focuses attention on the role of humanism in African American liberation struggles. The influence of humanist thought on prominent figures is emphasized, as is its impact on the Abolitionist, civil rights, and Black Power movements. Twenty-one chapters discuss history, culture, politics, personal accounts, and observations from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They include writings by Duchess Harris, Herbert Aptheker, Daniel Payne, Norm Allen, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, and Huey Newton. c. Book News Inc.
Race, Reform, and Rebellion
Author: Manning MarablePublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496847393
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Since its original publication in 1984, Manning Marable's Race, Reform, and Rebellion has become widely known as the most crucial political and social history of African Americans since World War II. Aimed at students of contemporary American politics and society and written by one of the most articulate and eloquent authorities on the movement for black freedom, this acclaimed study traces the divergent elements of political, social, and moral reform in nonwhite America since 1945. This third edition brings Marable's study into the twenty-first century, analyzing the effects of such factors as black neoconservatism, welfare reform, the Million Man March, the mainstreaming of hip-hop culture, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina. Marable's work, brought into the present, remains one of the most dramatic, well-conceived, and provocative histories of the struggle for African American civil rights and equality. Through the 1950s and 1960s, Marable follows the emergence of a powerful black working class, the successful effort to abolish racial segregation, the outbreak of Black Power, urban rebellion, and the renaissance of Black Nationalism. He explores the increased participation of blacks and other ethnic groups in governmental systems and the white reaction during the period he terms the Second Reconstruction. Race, Reform, and Rebellion illustrates how poverty, illegal drugs, unemployment, and a deteriorating urban infrastructure hammered the African American community in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Syncopations
Author: James CampbellPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052094108X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This compulsively readable collection of profiles and essays by James Campbell, tied together by a beguiling autobiographical thread, proffers unique observations on writers and writing in the post-1950s period. Campbell considers writers associated with the New Yorker magazine, including John Updike, William Maxwell, Truman Capote, and Jonathan Franzen. Continuing his longterm engagement with African American authors, he offers an account of his legal battle with the FBI over James Baldwin's file and a new profile of Amiri Baraka. He also focuses on the Beat poets Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg, as well as writers such as Edmund White and Thom Gunn. Campbell's concluding essay on his childhood in Scotland gracefully connects the book's autobiographical dots.
Twentieth Century American Literature
Author: Warren FrenchPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 134916416X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Scars of Conquest/masks of Resistance
Author: Tejumola OlaniyanPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195094050
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Examining in detail the dramas of Baraka, Soyinka, Walcott and Shange, this study describes how these black writers are preoccupied with the invention of a postimperial cultural identity. It charts the foundations of an important aesthetic form, the drama of the African diaspora.