num_pages: 224
description: Activist, dramatist, poet, and intellectual, Imamu Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones, has challenged literary and cultural conventions with the potency of a skilled and dynamic experimenter. Acknowledging the significance of Baraka's literary and political contributions, the editor of this volume, Kimberly W. Benston, presents many of the best critiques produced to date and assesses the full range of Baraka's literary innovations. Organized by prose, poetry, drama, and music criticism, this volume reveals an underlying continuity that runs through Baraka's literary development and political activism.
language: English
title: Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones): A Collection of Critical Essays
titlecomplete: Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones): A Collection of Critical Essays (20th Century Views)
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Prentice-Hall/ Spectrum