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Amiri Baraka

            The content/themes of Amiri Baraka's writing are about many controversial subjects in his time. Some of his writings are about the social development and political development of African American music. Some of his writings became politically committed and socially committed after the assassination of Malcolm X. Other subjects of his writings include black pride and black experience such as the Black Arts Movement and the Civil Rights Movement.
             Amiri Baraka has a unique style of writing. His writings are usually written with violent imagery and/or fragmentary. Violent imagery portrays violent behavior or fosters and encourages violent behavior in a vivid manner. Fragmentary portrays things in bits and parts. With his style of writing, he was able to establish a connection between African American language forms and literature.
             Amiri Baraka's work had a great reputation in society. It influenced an entire generation of black writers. He was able to do this by providing a basis for the start of a black literature. In one of his popular pieces of writings is Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (1961), he dedicated several of the poems to the poets that he learned from or was influenced by. The two that had lasting influence on Baraka was Allen Ginsberg and Frank O"Hara. Another one of his popular writings includes Blues People (1963), which traced the social and political development of African American music.
             Some of his famous pieces of writing include Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (1961) and Blues People (1963). These two pieces of writing traced the social and political developments of African American music. His other piece of writing, The Dead Lecturer (1964), provides a record of him in torment and transformation. He also has written other pieces of writing, which includes Dutchman and The Slave (1964). In these two pieces, he combined the nonrealistic staging of the early 1960s experimentalist theater with militant.


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1. Amiri Baraka

LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, playwright, author, poet, activist, critic, and educator. ... (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxiv) Amiri is all about using poetry as a machine-gun, he once made a comment "we want poems that kill" (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxv). ... "( Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxv). ... Amiri Baraka was the leader of this movement. ... At this time he and his wife changed their name to Immanu Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

2. Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka was born on October 7, 1934, in Newark, New Jersey. His original name was not Amiri Baraka, his birth name was Everett LeRoi Jones. He originally wrote under the name LeRoi Jones His name got changed to Amiri Baraka when he converted to Islam, it then first became Imamu Amiri Baraka then he altered it. ... Amiri Baraka had also written fiction and non-fiction books. ... In 1956 Amiri Baraka had divorced his wife Hettie Cohen. ...

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  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

3. Central Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement

One of the most prominent representatives of these revolutionary authors was Amiri Baraka, who had been an acclaimed writer of poetry, fiction and music criticism, before he was sent to prison in 1967 after the Newark riots. ... Although a couple of anti-semitic remarks have somewhat beclouded his reputation, Amiri Baraka is undeniably one of the strongest voices of the Black Power movement. ...

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  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

4. Freedom Of Sppech And Expression

In October 2001 Amiri Baraka, New Jersey's poet laureate, wrote a poem called "Somebody Blew Up America". ... Baraka to step down from his position because he was causing too much problems and Mr. Baraka even admitted that this is a"' poem that aims to probe and disturb-(Newman, 2). ... Baraka has taken advantage of his first amendment rights. ... Baraka, who are taking advantage of their first amendment. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

5. Black Arts Movement

The movement's major players were Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones, Adrienne Kennedy, Ron Karenga, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, and many more Black artists at this particular time in American history. ... Many felt the movement lost it's fire when Amiri Baraka left the movement in 1974 adopting a Leninist/Marxist philosophy and when Hoyt Fuller died in 1971. ...

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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

6. Creating Space: The Dramatic Use of Lies in Dutchman

Amiri Baraka's play Dutchman uses a dramatic interplay between the two lead characters, Lula and Clay, to grab the attention of the audience and to allow more focus to be placed on complex societal issues. ... This is a classic example of how Baraka uses dramatic lies to bring more serious issues to light. ... Lula's ambivalence to the offense in her statements creates the space for the audience to question what Baraka meant when he stated that his characters were "the spirit of America itself". ... Through examining the effects of Lula's act of lying, the offensive name-callin...

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  • Approx Pages: 5
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

7. Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison Toni Morrison is a wonderful writer. Toni Morrison was the first black woman who won the Nobel prize for literature. She was the second child of four children of George Wofford, a shipyard welder and Ramah Willis Wofford....

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  • Grade Level: High School

8. african-american poetry

African American poetics as well as all kinds of art and literature blossomed in a ghetto of New York called Harlem, where black artists began to write and make art of the subject of African Americas" share of the apple called "America". The Harlem Renaissance, as the name given to this whole bunch ...

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  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

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