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Amiri Baraka (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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Amiri Baraka has been a cultural activist and professional writer for more than four decades and in that time has produced a wide range of works, including plays, essays, stories, and poems. Best known for dramas produced in the 1960’s (The Baptism, pr. 1964; The Toilet, pr., pb. 1964), he has also written a novel (The System of Dante’s Hell, 1965), collections of poetry (Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, 1961), The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka (1984), and several books on black music (Blues...
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Autobiography of LeRoi JonesøAmiri Baraka, The (Juvenile Literature) -
Blues People (Identities and Issues) -
Conversations with Amiri Baraka (Magill Book Reviews) -
Daggers and Javelins (Identities and Issues) -
Dutchman (African American Literature) -
Dutchman (Drama) -
Dutchman (Masterplots Classics) -
Dutchman (Character Profiles) -
Dutchman (Identities and Issues) -
Dutchman (Literary Places) -
Essays of Amiri Baraka, The (African American Literature) -
Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader, The (Magill Book Reviews) -
Poem for Black Hearts, A (Poetry) -
Poetry of Baraka, The (African American Literature) -
Political Poem (Poetry) -
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (Poetry) -
Screamers, The (Short Stories) -
Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (Identities and Issues) -
System of Dante’s Hell, The (African American Literature) -
System of Dante’s Hell, The (American Fiction) -
System of Dante’s Hell, The (Character Profiles) -
Acting Styles (Topical Overview--Drama) -
African-American Drama (Topical Overview--Drama) -
Dramatic Genres (Topical Overview--Drama) -
Experimental Theater (Topical Overview--Drama) -
Staging and Production (Topical Overview--Drama) -
African American Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
African American Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction) -
Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
