Centered squarely on the Negro-white conflict, both "Dutchman "and "The Slave "are literally shocking plays--in ideas, in language, in honest anger. They illuminate as with a flash of lightning a deadly serious problem--and they bring an eloquent and exceptionally powerful voice to the American theatre. "Dutchman "opened in New York City on March ...
The author traces the influence of jazz and blues on white America, not only in the context of music and pop culture but also in terms of the values and perspectives passed on through the music. He aims to illuminate the influence of African Americans on American culture and history.
Amiri Baraka - dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer - is one of the preeminent African-American literary figures of our time. The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader provides the most comprehensive selection of Baraka's work to date, spanning almost 40 years of a brilliant, prolific, and controversial career, in which he has produced ...
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, formed in the aftermath of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, remains one of the most controversial movements of the 20th-century. Founded by the charismatic Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the party sounded a defiant cry for an end to the institutionalized subjugation of African Americans. The Black ...
A collection of fiery essays by Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) that cover a variety of subjects, among them Robert Kennedy, James Baldwin, Cuba, black sexuality, and the role of the artist as a force for social change.
This is a collection of revealing interviews with the former LeRoi Jones, a leading figure in the world-wide black liberation movement, and poet, playwright, fiction writer and essayist. Included are interviews conducted by Maya Angelou and David Frost, plus a new interview granted to the editor. The text provides an insight into African-American ...
The word jubilee means, among other things, "a celebration in anticipation of future happiness." Based on new scholarship by the Schomburg Center, Jubilee presents a fresh, new perspective on how enslaved Africans triumphed over slavery. Working as creative agents of their own destiny within the shackles of slavery, enslaved Africans reinvented ...
Comprising short fiction from the early 1970s to the twenty-first century-most of which has never been published-Tales of the Out & the Gone reflects the astounding evolution of America's most provocative literary anti-hero. The first section of the book, "War Stories," offers six stories enmeshed in the vola-tile politics of the 1970s and 1980s ...
In the grand, narrative tradition of Gwendolyn Brooks and Edward Sanders, this riveting collection of poetic plays and photo-documentary poems exposes the human cost of corporate greed and gives voice to the growing crisis faced in communities across America. "The several long poems that make up this book build into each other with devastating ...
Baraka describes his journey from Newark to the greater world and back again, his transition from LeRoi Jones to Amiri Baraka, and his embrace of Marxism.
"A richness of language and observation pervades this collection of short stories by a black writer about real black people."-"The New York Times Book Review" These early writings from award-winning playwright Ed Bullins explore loneliness and despair in beautifully crafted stories. Ed Bullins has written numerous plays and fiction, including "In ...
Dial's assemblages, as well as watercolors and drawings, are presented in 128 luminous, full-color reproductions. The book also includes a list of collectors and an exhibition history of Dial's, work, providing an in-depth study of one of America's most dynamic contemporary artists.
This memoir recalls the experiences of Aishah Rahman, now a celebrated playwright, as she was coming of age in the home of her unpredictable foster mother in Harlem during the 1940 and 1950s, when the glories of the Harlem Renaissance were eroding under poverty and the effects of racism. This is a portrait of a childhood and the neighborhood that ...
The defining work of the Black Arts Movement, "Black Fire" is at once a rich anthology and an extraordinary source document. Nearly 200 selections, including poetry, essays, short stories, and plays, from over 75 cultural critics, writers, and political leaders, capture the social and cultural turmoil of the 1960s. In his new introduction, Amiri ...
Here, for the first time under one cover, is the collected fiction of one of America's greatest writers. LeRoi Jones, later known as Amiri Baraka, may be most famous for his plays, poetry, and music writings; nut his one published novel, The System of Dante's Hell (1965), his book of short stories, Tales (1967), and his previously unpublished ...
A collection of essays by African Americans on Malcolm X includes contributions by fifteen writers, including Amiri Baraka, Cornel West, and Arnold Rampersad.
A collection of four plays by contemporary playwright, screenwriter, and director Ron Milner. Much of Black literature from the 1940s through the 1960s deals with the search for identity and asks the question, Should Blacks define themselves in relationship to white people and white culture? In dramatizing the struggles and desires of the Black ...
More than 30 years of personal essays, including remembrances of James Baldwin, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie, by the Obie-winning dramatist, fiction writer, and poet. Many of these pieces are based in Newark, where Amiri Baraka has lived for much of his adult life.
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