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Amiri Baraka (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
Author Profile
Introspective yet concerned with public, political issues, Amiri Baraka’s works frequently focus on his personal attempt to define an African American identity. Born into a close-knit family that had migrated from the South, Baraka was a bright student. In adolescence Baraka became aware of differences between African American middle-class and working-class lives and viewpoints. He recalls the identity crisis that grew out of his developing class awareness in such works as “Letter to E. Franklin Frazier,” his novel The System of Dante’s Hell, and...
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- Amiri Baraka (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
- Amiri Baraka (Critical Survey of Poetry)
- Amiri Baraka (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
- Amiri Baraka (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
- Amiri Baraka (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
- Amiri Baraka (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
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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)
