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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827861403321

Autore

Watts Jerry Gafio

Titolo

Amiri Baraka [[electronic resource] ] : the politics and art of a Black intellectual / / Jerry Gafio Watts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8147-8455-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (592 pages)

Disciplina

818/.5409

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-570) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 found and direct the influential Black Arts movement which sought to



move black writers away from western aesthetic sensibilities and toward a more complete embrace of the black world. Except perhaps for James Baldwin, no single figure has had more of an impact on black intellectual and artistic life during the last forty years.