The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader,9781560252382

The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9781560252382
ISBN10: 1560252383
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-11-22
Publisher(s): Basic Books
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Summary

Amiri Baraka - dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer - is one of the preeminent African-American literary figures of our time. The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader provides the most comprehensive selection of Baraka's work to date, spanning almost 40 years of a brilliant, prolific, and controversial career, in which he has produced more than 12 books of poetry, 26 plays, eight collections of essays and speeches, and two books of fiction. This updated edition contains over 50 pages of previously unpublished work, as well as a chronology and full bibliography.

Author Biography

Amiri Baraka is a critic, poet, playwright, and activist. He lives in Newark, NJ. William J. Harris is associate professor of English at SUNY-Stony Brook.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Reader xi
Amiri Baraka
Editor's Note xv
Introduction xvii
William J. Harris
Chronology xxxi
THE BEAT PERIOD (1957-1962) 1(18)
From Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (poetry, 1961)
3(13)
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
3(1)
Hymn for Lanie Poo
4(6)
In Memory of Radio
10(1)
Look for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today
11(3)
Notes for a Speech
14(2)
From New American Poetry (poetics, 1960)
16(3)
How You Sound??
16(3)
THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD (1963-1965) 19(104)
From Blues People (music criticism, 1963)
21(30)
African Slaves/American Slaves: Their Music
21(12)
Swing --- From Verb to Noun
33(18)
From The Dead Lecturer (poetry, 1964)
51(25)
A contract. (for the destruction and rebuilding of Paterson
51(1)
An Agony. As Now.
52(1)
A Poem for Willie Best
53(6)
Short Speech To My Friends
59(1)
The politics of rich painters
60(2)
Rhythm & Blues
62(4)
Crow Jane
66(3)
For Crow Jane/Mama Death.
66(1)
Crow Jane's Manner.
66(1)
Crow Jane In High Society.
67(1)
Crow Jane The Crook
68(1)
The dead lady canonized.
69(1)
I Substitute for the Dead Lecturer
69(2)
Black Dada Nihilismus
71(2)
Political Poem
73(1)
The Liar
74(2)
Dutchman (play, 1964)
76(24)
From The System of Dante's Hell (novel, 1965)
100(23)
The Heretics
100(23)
THE BLACK NATIONALIST PERIOD (1965-1974) 123(126)
From Home: Social Essays (collected essays, 1966)
125(46)
Cuba Libre
125(36)
The Legacy of Malcolm X, and the Coming of the Black Nation
161(8)
State/meant
169(2)
From Tales (stories, 1967)
171(8)
The Screamers
171(6)
Words
177(2)
From Black Music (music criticism, 1968)
179(31)
Jazz and the White Critic
179(7)
The Changing Same (R&B and New Black Music)
186(24)
From Black Magic (poetry, 1969)
210(15)
A Poem Some People Will Have To Understand
210(1)
Citizen Cain
211(1)
Letter to E. Franklin Frazier
212(1)
Leadbelly Gives An Autograph
213(1)
Numbers, Letters
214(1)
Western Front
215(1)
T. T. Jackson sings
216(1)
Return of the Native
217(1)
A Poem for Black Hearts
218(1)
SOS
218(1)
Black Art
219(1)
Poem for HalfWhite College Students
220(1)
W. W.
221(1)
Ka 'Ba
221(1)
The World Is Full of Remarkable Things
222(1)
leroy
223(1)
Black People!
224(1)
From Four Black Revolutionary Plays (1969)
225(15)
Great Goodness of Life (1966)
225(15)
From It's Nation Time (poetry, 1970)
240(3)
It's Nation Time
240(3)
Afrikan Revolution (poem, 1973)
243(6)
THE THIRD WORLD MARXIST PERIOD (1974-) 249(334)
From Hard Facts (poetry, 1975)
251(11)
When We'll Worship Jesus
251(3)
A New Reality Is Better Than a New Movie!
254(2)
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
256(2)
Das Kapital
258(2)
A Poem for Deep Thinkers
260(2)
From Poetry for the Advanced (poetry, 1979)
262(11)
Pres Spoke in a Language
262(1)
Dope
263(4)
Am/Trak
267(6)
What Was The Relationship of the Lone Ranger to the Means of Production? (play, 1979)
273(29)
In the Tradition (poem, 1982)
302(9)
From Daggers and Javelins (essays, 1984)
311(29)
The Revolutionary Tradition in Afro-American Literature
311(11)
Aime Cesaire
322(11)
Ngugi wa Thiongo
333(7)
From The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka (1984)
340(60)
Error Farce
340(27)
The Black Arts (Harlem, Politics, Search for a New Life)
367(33)
From The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues (1987)
400(95)
Primitive World: An Anti-Nuclear Jazz Musical (play, 1983)
400(50)
Jimmy! (eulogy for James Baldwin, 1987)
450(7)
Black People & Jesse Jackson II (essay, 1988-89)
457(23)
Why's/Wise
480(15)
Wise 1
481(1)
Wise 2
481(2)
Wise 3
483(1)
Wise 4
484(1)
Wise 5
485(1)
Wise 6
486(2)
Wise 7
488(1)
Wise 8
488(1)
Wise 9
489(1)
Wise 10
490(1)
Rough Hand Dreamers (Wise 11)
491(1)
A farmer come to the city (Wise 12)
491(1)
Wise 13
492(3)
New and Previously Unpublished Works
495(88)
The Black Arts Movement (essay, 1994)
495(11)
Malcolm As Ideology (1995)
506(15)
An Introduction (unpublished)
521(4)
Robert Williams
Sweet Lorraine (essay, unpublished, performed as a tribute to Lorraine Hansberry, 1996)
525(3)
Portrait of the Lion: Willie ``The Lion'' Smith, A Script for the New-Arkestra (musical drama, performed 1997-1998 at NJPAC & NYU)
528(17)
Black Reconstruction: Du Bois and the U.S. Struggle for Democracy and Socialism (1998)
545(15)
Allah Mean Everything! Pt One (poem, unpublished 1998)
560(3)
Margaret Walker (essay, 1999)
563(3)
Understanding Readiness (1999)
566(1)
Sassy Was Definitely Not the Avon Lady (narrative, performed at Sassy Tribute, March 1999 NJPAC, published in Digging, 1999)
567(3)
Mumia, ``Lynch Law'' and Imperialism (1999)
570(5)
The Great Max Roach (1999)
575(2)
My Man Came by the Crib the Other Day ... (short story, 1999)
577(6)
Select Bibliography 583(4)
About the Editor 587

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