Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Including6 Persons, a previously unpublished novel; The System of Dante's Hell; and Tales, this collection also features four uncollected short stories.
The Fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka
Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Including6 Persons, a previously unpublished novel; The System of Dante's Hell; and Tales, this collection also features four uncollected short stories.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Including6 Persons, a previously unpublished novel; The System of Dante's Hell; and Tales, this collection also features four uncollected short stories.
Transbluesency
Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781568860145
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Poet, dramatist, essayist, fiction writer and political activist, Amiri Baraka is considered by many to be the most influential and preeminent African-American literary figures of our time. Transbluesency reveals a writer shaping a body of poetry that is as well a body of knowledge--a passionate reflection upon the cultural, political, and aesthetic questions of his time.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781568860145
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Poet, dramatist, essayist, fiction writer and political activist, Amiri Baraka is considered by many to be the most influential and preeminent African-American literary figures of our time. Transbluesency reveals a writer shaping a body of poetry that is as well a body of knowledge--a passionate reflection upon the cultural, political, and aesthetic questions of his time.
Raise, Race, Rays, Raze
Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This book contains essays on race relations in America since 1965.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This book contains essays on race relations in America since 1965.
Digging
Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520943090
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520943090
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
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 Our Terribleness
Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
"There are mostly portraits here. Portraits of life. Of life being lived. Black People inspire us. Send life into us ... We wanted to conjure with Black Life to recreate it for our selves. So that the connection with you would be a bigger Self"--From unnumbered page 13.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
"There are mostly portraits here. Portraits of life. Of life being lived. Black People inspire us. Send life into us ... We wanted to conjure with Black Life to recreate it for our selves. So that the connection with you would be a bigger Self"--From unnumbered page 13.
The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones
Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613745893
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The complete autobiography of a literary legend.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613745893
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The complete autobiography of a literary legend.
Conversations with Amiri Baraka
Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780878056873
Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Interviews from over the course of the author's career document his views on writing, poetry, drama, and the social role of the writer
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780878056873
Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Interviews from over the course of the author's career document his views on writing, poetry, drama, and the social role of the writer
A Nation within a Nation
Author: Komozi Woodard
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876178
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876178
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
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.
Black Fire
Author: Imamu Amiri Baraka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Tales
Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617754153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
“A clutch of early stories from the poet, playwright, and provocateur, infused with jazz and informed by racial alienation” (Kirkus Reviews). “Baraka was, without question, the central figure of the Black Arts Movement, and was the most important theorist of that movement’s expression of the ‘Black Aesthetic,’ which took hold of the African American cultural imagination in earnest in the late sixties. While known primarily for his plays, poems, and criticism of black music, Baraka was also a master of the short story form, as this collection attests. Tales first appeared in 1967 and is an impressionistic and sometimes surrealistic collection of short fiction, showcasing Amiri Baraka’s great impact on African American literature of the 1950s and 1960s. Tales is a critical volume in Amiri Baraka’s oeuvre, and an important testament to his remarkable literary legacy.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr. The sixteen artful and nuanced stories in this reissue of Amiri Baraka’s seminal 1967 collection fall into two parts: the first nine concern themselves with the sensibility of a hip, perceptive young black man in white America. The last seven stories endeavor to place that same man within the context of his awareness of and participation in a rapidly emerging and powerfully felt negritude. They deal, it might be said, with the black man in black America. Yet these tales are not social tracts, but absolutely masterful fiction—provocative, witty, and, at times, bitter and aggressive.
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617754153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
“A clutch of early stories from the poet, playwright, and provocateur, infused with jazz and informed by racial alienation” (Kirkus Reviews). “Baraka was, without question, the central figure of the Black Arts Movement, and was the most important theorist of that movement’s expression of the ‘Black Aesthetic,’ which took hold of the African American cultural imagination in earnest in the late sixties. While known primarily for his plays, poems, and criticism of black music, Baraka was also a master of the short story form, as this collection attests. Tales first appeared in 1967 and is an impressionistic and sometimes surrealistic collection of short fiction, showcasing Amiri Baraka’s great impact on African American literature of the 1950s and 1960s. Tales is a critical volume in Amiri Baraka’s oeuvre, and an important testament to his remarkable literary legacy.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr. The sixteen artful and nuanced stories in this reissue of Amiri Baraka’s seminal 1967 collection fall into two parts: the first nine concern themselves with the sensibility of a hip, perceptive young black man in white America. The last seven stories endeavor to place that same man within the context of his awareness of and participation in a rapidly emerging and powerfully felt negritude. They deal, it might be said, with the black man in black America. Yet these tales are not social tracts, but absolutely masterful fiction—provocative, witty, and, at times, bitter and aggressive.