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Amiri Baraka

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Biography

Name: Imamu Amiri Baraka
Variant Name: Everett LeRoi Jones
Birth Date: October 30, 1934
Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, author, playwright, poet

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Biography of Imamu Amiri Baraka
872 words, approx. 3 pages
The African American author Imamu Amiri Baraka (born 1934 as Everett LeRoi Jones) became influential during the 1960s as a spokesperson for radical black literature and theater. Born as Everett LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, on October 30, 1934,...
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Biography of Imamu Amiri Baraka
11,654 words, approx. 39 pages
An influential figure among the literary avant-garde of Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side during the late 1950s and early 1960s, Amiri Baraka (known as LeRoi Jones until 1968) has been a seminal force in the development of contemporary...
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Biography of Amiri Baraka
10,855 words, approx. 36 pages
An influential figure among the literary avant-garde of Greenwich Village and the lower East Side during the late 1950s and early 1950s, Amiri Baraka (known as LeRoi Jones until 1968) has been a seminal force in the development of contemporary...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Baraka, Amiri (1934—) Summary
181 words, approx. 1 pages
Writer Amiri Baraka founded the 1960s Black Arts Movement, transforming white, liberal aesthetics into black nationalist poetics and politics. In 1967, he converted to Islam and changed his name from Leroi Jones to Amiri Baraka. His career can be...
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Amiri Baraka Information
1,498 words, approx. 5 pages
Amiri Baraka (born October 7, 1934) is an American writer of poetry, drama, essays and music...


News and Journals
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Baltimore Afro-American
Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) speaks
10/22/2004: 659 words, approx. 2 pages
Hurst, Henry Allen Baltimore Afro-American 10-22-2004 "Boy, you then ruined my day!" said great poet and essayist Amiri Baraka, annoyed by my late arrival; he welcomed me to his home. An elder and political revolutionary of the Black community, Baraka's life exemplifies the journey...
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Black Renaissance
Ted Wilson Interviews Amiri Baraka
10/01/2007: 10,086 words, approx. 34 pages
THE idea for this interview came from Black Renaissance Noire editor, Quincy Troupe. I have had numerous conversations with Amiri Baraka in person and by telephone. Some of the conversations were informal and impromptu interviews just for my own curiosity. I had always toyed...
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Vibe.com
Interview: The Last Poets - The Revolution Continues
4/5/2004: 976 words, approx. 3 pages
Before hip hop and Def Poetry Jam there was The Last Poets. Their chapter would fall somewhere between Amiri Baraka and Africa Bambatta in the chronicle of the spoken word. The legendary lyricists shocked young Black America into social consciousness during the civil rights era...
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The New York Observer
\'d4Howl,\'d5 Ginsberg\'d5s Time Bomb, Still Setting Off New Explosions
4/9/2006: 1,327 words, approx. 4 pages
Hyperbolic titles invite dissent. So here’s mine: What makes Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” “the poem that changed America,” as the cover of this essay collection proclaims? Ginsberg might’ve responded by saying, as he did in a 1986 essay included here, that when San Francisco’s City Lights...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Interview by Amiri Baraka with D. H. Melhem
17,632 words, approx. 59 pages
In the following interview, conducted in 1982 by D. H. Melhem and Michael Bezdek, Baraka discusses a variety of topics including his upbringing, his work, and his views on art and politics.
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Critical Essay by Lloyd W. Brown
11,428 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following excerpt, Brown demonstrates Baraka's poignant use of dramatic form and his careful integration of plot, character, and setting. Brown also comments on Baraka 's manipulation of such traditional forms as the morality play to criticize conventional social structures, values, and beliefs.
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Critical Essay by George Piggford
4,304 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following essay, Piggford explores Baraka's psychological analysis of black American men in Dutchman.
 


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