A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power Politics
- ISBN-10
- 0807847615
- ISBN-13
- 9780807847619
- Series
- A Nation Within a Nation
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 329
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- Komozi Woodard
Description
Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is best known as one of the African American writers who helped ignite the Black Arts Movement. This book examines Baraka's cultural approach to Black Power politics and explores his role in the phenomenal spread of black
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