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Amiri Baraka (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Amiri Baraka (buh-RAH-kuh), born Everett LeRoi Jones, is one of the most important and most articulate writers of the Black Arts movement. Born on October 7, 1934, to a middle-class family, he graduated from high school at fifteen and attended Rutgers University on a science scholarship. After a year, he transferred to Howard University, receiving a B.A. in English in 1954. After serving in the Air Force, Baraka moved to Greenwich Village and plunged into a bohemian lifestyle that was influenced by the aesthetic protests of the Beat generation. During this period, he was married to a...
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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) -
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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)
