Amiri Baraka : the politics and art of a Black intellectual /

Amiri Baraka : the politics and art of a Black intellectual /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watts, Jerry Gafio
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2001]
Subjects:
Baraka, Amiri, > 1934-2014 > Political and social views.
Baraka, Amiri, > 1934-2014 > Criticism and interpretation.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Politics and government.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
Blacks > Politics and government.
African Americans in literature.
Blacks > Intellectual life.
Blacks in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Birth of an intellectual journey
  • Bohemian immersions
  • An alien among outsider
  • Rejecting Bohemia: The politicization of ethnic guilt
  • The quest for a blacker art
  • Toward a Black Arts infrastructure
  • Black Arts poet and essayist
  • Black revolutionary playwright
  • Kawaida: Totalizing the commitment
  • The slave as master: Black Nationalism, Kawaida and the repression of women
  • New-Ark and the emergence of pragmatic nationalism
  • Pan-Africianism
  • National Black Political Convention
  • Ever faithful: Toward a religious Marxism
  • The artist as Marxist / The Marxist as artist.