| Description |
xvi, 284 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword: We Seen It, Too / Fred Moten -- Introduction / Jean-Philippe Marcoux -- Amiri Baraka Among the Bohemians: 27 Cooper Square / William J. Harris -- Kulchur Wars / Aldon Lynn Nielsen -- Other Autobiographies: Racial and Spiritual Consciousness and the Prism of Identity in Amiri Baraka's Persons / Kathy Lou Schultz -- Baraka, Cullen, Trethewey: Incidents / Tyrone Williams -- Legitimate Black Heroes: Amiri Baraka's Prescient Views on the Politics of Sports / Emily Ruth Rutter -- Hegel off the Tracks / Jeremy Matthew Glick -- The Five Spot Café / William J. Harris -- Of Langston and Langston Manifestos: Langston Hughes and the Revolutionary Jazz Poetry of Amiri Baraka / John Lowney -- Amiri Baraka and the Dream of Unity Music / Grégory Pierrot -- A Marching Song for Some Strange Uncharted Country: The Black Nation, Black Revolution, and Amiri Baraka's Liner Notes / James Smethurst -- Baraka's Speculative Revolutions / Benjamin Lee -- Black and Blues: Amiri Baraka and Gil Scott-Heron's Political Poetry / Michael J. New -- Pick Up Them Cliffords: Amiri Baraka, Clifford Brown, and the Coinage of Currency / Aidan Levy -- We Are the (Rhythm and) Blues / Anthony Reed -- The Legacy and Place of Amiri Baraka / Lauri Scheyer -- Anthologizing the Poetry of Amiri Baraka, 1960-2018 / Howard Rambsy II -- Black (Feminist) Art: Contemporary Black Female Poets Speak Back to Baraka / Laura Vrana -- Black Magic: Evolving Notions of Gender and Sexuality in the Work of Amiri Baraka / Amy Abugo Ongiri -- Amina Baraka: The Woman Who Guided the Ship / Kim McMillon -- Amiri Baraka: Mentoring as Revolutionary Praxis / Michael Simanga -- The Overlooked Spirit Reach of Amiri Baraka's Terribleness / Kalamu ya Salaam -- Blues/Funk Outro: Amiri Baraka as Cultural Philosopher / Tony Bolden. |
| Summary |
"Scholars and critics draw upon Amiri Baraka's oeuvre to reassess his political and literary legacy"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"This collection of original essays brings together some of the most important critics and scholars of Amiri Baraka's oeuvre. Some Other Blues consists of career-spanning conversations on the many trajectories, bifurcations, and intersections in and of Baraka's black art. Every chapter is grounded in the desire to illuminate Baraka's multilayered creative output--whether through critical analyses, literary historiographies, or musicological and biographical reassessments of his work. Every contributor attempts, in their own unique ways, to delineate how the contours of poems, short stories, essays, and editorials reveal the poetics and politics of Amiri Baraka. At the same time, every chapter looks outward at what Baraka saw as the fractures and fissures of our society--moments in the history of African America that have needed repair and relief. For the first time in one book, two generations of scholars and friends of the Baraka family converge to assess the legacy and the imprint of the writer, activist, and cultural worker who has reshaped and redefined what is means to be a black public intellectual and poet."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014 -- Political and social views.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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African American authors -- 20th century.
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Jazz in literature.
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Black power -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014. (OCoLC)fst01774906
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African American authors. (OCoLC)fst00799028
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
(OCoLC)fst00799627
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Black power. (OCoLC)fst00833747
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Jazz in literature. (OCoLC)fst00982203
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Political and social views. (OCoLC)fst01353986
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Marcoux, Jean-Philippe, 1977- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780814257845 (paperback) |
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0814257844 (paperback) |
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9780814214589 (hardback) |
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0814214584 (hardback) |
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9780814281055 (ebook) |
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0814281052 (ebook) |
| Standard No. |
40030444994 |
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