Baptism
BAPTISM. The word baptism comes from the Greek baptein, which means to plunge, to immerse, or to wash; it also signifies, from the Homeric period onward, any rite of immersion in water. The fr...
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LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka is one author who inevitably is mentioned whenever people talk about Afro-American literature. But he is also a writer who figures prominently in the development of contempora...
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LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka, one of the prime movers of the revolutionary black theatre and the contemporary black arts movement in general, came to the forefront of the American literary scene in the ...
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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 semin...
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Contemporary Afro-American literature, culture, and philosophy of the past two decades has been profoundly influenced by Amiri Baraka's social, political, and aesthetic principles. For those Americans...
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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 J...
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Biography EssayAn 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) h...
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Baptism
Amiri Baraka
Imamu Amiri Baraka