The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones
- ISBN-10
- 1556522312
- ISBN-13
- 9781556522314
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 465
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press
- Authors
- Imamu Amiri Baraka, Amiri Baraka
Description
A fuller version of the author's autobiography, without the cuts made by a previous publisher, details his life through 1974, and explains the development of his Black Nationalist views and his embrace of Islam and Marxism.
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