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Watts Jerry Gafio |
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Amiri Baraka [[electronic resource] ] : the politics and art of a Black intellectual / / Jerry Gafio Watts |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2001 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (592 pages) |
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Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
African Americans - Politics and government |
African Americans - Intellectual life |
Black people - Politics and government |
African Americans in literature |
Black people - Intellectual life |
Black people in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-570) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1 Birth of an Intellectual Journey; 2 Bohemian Immersions; 3 An Alien among Outsiders; 4 Rejecting Bohemia: The Politicization of Ethnic Guilt; 5 The Quest for a Blacker Art; 6 Toward a Black Arts Infrastructure; 7 Black Arts Poet and Essayist; 8 Black Revolutionary Playwright; 9 Kawaida: Totalizing the Commitment; 10 The Slave as Master: Black Nationalism, Kawaida, and the Repression of Women; 11 New-Ark and the Emergence of Pragmatic Nationalism; 12 Pan-Africanism; 13 National Black Political Convention |
14 Ever Faithful: Toward a Religious Marxism 15 The Artist as Marxist / The Marxist as Artist; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones, became known as one of the most militant, anti-white black nationalists of the 1960's Black Power movement. An advocate of Black Cultural Nationalism, Baraka supported the rejection of all things white and western. He helped |
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