| Description |
xix, 218 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Essays. Introduction: The incomplete turn of Larry Neal / Stanley Crouch -- And Shine swan on -- The black writer's role, l : Richard Wright -- The black writer's role, II : Ellison's zoot suit -- The black writer's role, III : James Baldwin -- The Black Arts Movement -- The genius and the prize -- Eatonville's Zora Neale Hurston : a profile -- Uncle Rufus raps on the squared circle -- The ethos of the blues -- My Lord, he calls me by the thunder -- On Malcom X from "New Space/the growth of black consciousness in the sixties" -- Black power in the international context. |
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Drama. Introduction: In again, out again, Larry Neal / Charles Fuller -- from The glorious monster in the bell of the horn. |
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Poetry. Introduction: Larry's time / Jayne Cortez -- The narrative of the black magicians -- Shine's sermon on cosmology I -- Shines goes to jail -- Shine touched by death's whisper -- Poppa Stoppa speaks from his grave -- Don't say goodbye to the porkpie hat -- The slave -- The baroness and the black musician -- For black writers and artists in "exile" -- Lady's day -- For our women -- Abdul's avatar and the sun sister's song -- The life : hoodoo hollerin' bebop ghosts -- Scag dream -- Ghost poem #1 -- Can I tell you this story, or will you send me through all kinds of changes? -- Malcolm X : an autobiography -- The summer after Malcolm -- Love song in middle passage -- It's the year of the snake : 1965 -- Rizzo's nightmare -- Brother pimp -- Kuntu. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Literary collections.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014.
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Schwartz, Michael, 1942-
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| ISBN |
0938410784 |
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9780938410782 |
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0938410776 (paperback) |
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9780938410775 (paperback) |
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