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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Amiri Baraka"”.
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The Freedom to Choose: The Aesthetics of Choice in Short Stories by Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Cade Bambara
Black Arts' writer Amiri Baraka observes in his essay "Northern Iowa: Short Story and Poetry," that "For black people, freedom is our aesthetic and our ideology." The focus on liberation has artistic and political resonance for African Americans. Freedom--as communal aesthetic and …
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Black Heart
… testament to my own experiences. These poets are Amiri Baraka, Edgar Allan Poe, and Charles Baudelaire because each of them embodies some aspect of my struggle to self-identify. Amiri Baraka, according to [H]as thrown himself into the social and political life of his times, [and it seems as if] he …
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Projective Citizenship--The Reimagining of the Citizen in Post-War American Poetry
… tradition in post-war America: Charles Olson, Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones, Susan Howe, and Myung Mi Kim. It considers the way these poets engage, via innovations in poetic form, with conceptions of the citizen and meanings of citizenship at different historical moments in the United States. …
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Ears Taut to Hear: Sound Recording and Twentieth-Century American Literature
… Alan Lomax, Sidney Bechet, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and August Wilson, I explore how literature across a number of genres and modes extended formal techniques in response to the advent of the phonograph, tape, and LPs. I contend that the development …
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Descent: American Individualism, American Blackness and the Trouble with Invention
… in the cultural and literary criticism of Amiri Baraka, Nathaniel Mackey and Fred Moten, proposing a turn away from music as a central trope in African American critical theory. The first two chapters consider the work of legal theorist Duncan Kennedy in critical legal studies (CLS), which …
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Asian American poetry, American poetry, and the critique of identity: Asian American poetry in comparative context, 1887-2005
… argues that the poetry of David Rafael Wang and Amiri Baraka attempts to naturalize identity to personality by invoking intensely subjective experiences, pain and sex, as proof for the reality of racial identity. But since race must be constructed to define selfhood, alternative notions of the …
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"Beyond Consolation": Or Strangeness, Estrangement, and Strange-ing in the Elegy for the Black Body, 1955-Present
… not limited to Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Haki R. Madhubuti, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Claudia Rankine, Ross Gay, and Danez Smith—who together construct a compelling form for what can be termed the elegy for the black body. While adhering to …
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Other Than a Citizen: Vernacular Poetics in Postwar America
… of Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka and Gwendolyn Brooks, against the historical backdrop of the Free-Speech Movement and the rise of mass-culture. When poets frame nonliterary speech within the literary page, they encounter the inability of writing to capture the vital …
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A sturdy Black bridge : a symbolic connection among three generations of Black female poets.
… the events of change through the voices of Amiri Baraka, Dudley Randall, and many other black males. Although black women had contributed significantly to the literature during the 1960's and 1970's, the point of view often used to tell the story of blacks was primarily male. It was not …
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Improvising Resistance: Jazz, Poetry, and the Black Arts Movement, 1960–1969
This thesis is an interdisciplinary analysis of jazz music and poetry produced by African-American artists, primarily in New York, over the course of the 1960s, set within the broad context of the civil-rights and black-nationalist movements of the same period. Its principal contention is that the …