... Baraka, the poet and writer formerly known as LeRoi Jones. “I said to her twice, ‘Hello, Nina. How are you? This is Chris.’ And she looked at me and said, ‘Hello, dahling. How are you?’ She didn't know who the fuck I was. I could have been the man in the fucking moon. She was totally out of it.” Later...

... of the 21^st century. This chapter examines literature written by Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Claudia Rankine, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, and others. black aesthetics “black is beautiful” theme Harlem Renaissance Hughes Langston individuality Randall Dudley anticipation assimilation black...

... with the Third World rather than looking to Washington for help had attracted advocates ranging from Williams to Malcolm X, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Vicki Garvin, Harold Cruse, and groups such as the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM). The successes—and failures—of these pioneering figures helped pave...

..., thus reproducing racialized models of representationalism. It also considers how this critical engagement with the politics of abstraction and the visuality of racial politics translated to the symbolic economy of the black mask. In closing, the chapter looks to Baraka’s contemporaneous writing...

...This chapter discusses two Black Arts writers who benefited from War on Poverty patronage: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Gwendolyn Brooks. In The System of Dante’s Hell and In the Mecca, the two writers developed distinct versions of participatory art. Like much of Baraka’s Beat-period work...

... life force essentialism Suit Natalia K Abaaoud Abdelhamid purification rituals Gil White Francis Henrich Joseph infocopying prestige psychology Islam Qur’an mushaf baraka blending theory psychological essentialism sacredness desecration iconic dimension Some years ago...

...This chapter concentrates on Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka to participate in the ongoing discourse that positions black writers within the lineage of American pragmatism. It connects definition with the work that critics, such as Ross Posnock, Michael Magee, Nancy...

...This chapter investigates how Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka used Charlie “Bird” Parker as a sign of Negro complexity and a symbolic guide through the contingent relationship among the illustrations and theories developed in their literary works and cultural criticism...

...Though often thought of as rivals, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Baraka shared a range of interests, especially a passion for music. Jazz, in particular, was a decisive influence on their thinking, and, as this book reveals, they drew on their insights into the creative process...

...This chapter focuses primarily on Black Arts Movement intellectual LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka and his semi-autobiographical novel The System of Dante's Hell (1965) and essays that appear in the collection Home (1966). It also engages with Eldridge Cleaver's...

...This chapter offers a reading of Amiri Baraka's 1964 play, Dutchman, focusing on its use of race icons to engage with white liberal response to racial uplift ideology and its implications for black subjectivity. The chapter considers Rashid Johnson's restaging of Dutchman...

... agent of peace in the city. It demonstrates that, when Amiri Baraka and his United Brothers organization took aim at City Hall via a decisive turn to electoral politics, they found a ready reservoir of political experience and activists in those who had for the previous four years pursued community...

...This article looks at the poetry of the Black Arts Movement as a response to the first avant-garde’s poetry of experimentation. It analyses how Amiri Baraka and Gwendolyn Brooks borrow from these poetic gestures, through collage, in order to respond poetically as well as politically to the urgency...

... criticism critical theory Du Bois W E B Ellison Ralph Howe Irving Hurston Zora Neale Locke Alain Marxism sociology and mid twentieth century African American thought Wright Richard Baldwin James Baraka Amiri LeRoi Jones Black Power movement Black racial essence blues Baldwin and Lee Don L...

..., Amiri Baraka, and other writers, this chapter examines how specific practices of radio listening—such as ambient listening—that mediated the Beat reception of jazz as a source of innovation and resistance to conformism are subverted in Baraka’s early work in ways that open radical possibilities of Black...

... of Alastu discipleship Faal Ibra mission of Bamba pledge of allegiance sainthood and Bamba baraka Iblīs reversals of situations Satan suffering Jaxate Mbay ʿAjamization of Islam Jakite Ablaay Unseth Peter Dumont Fernand Kala Majaxate Muusaa Jaxate Kane Ousmane Oumar Mbakke Al Ḥājj Mbay...

...Inspired the repressive act of the colonial powers, LeRoi Jones (or known by his Muslim name, Amiri Baraka) capitalizes on his educational background and profession to come up with publications disputing the discourses of the Western civilizations. According to the commentaries, Baraka attempts...

... incantation artifice experimental writing homage indeterminacy Jones LeRoi Amiri Baraka revision translation Buddhism Cage John decentring self decentralisation Melville Herman Moby Dick paragrammatic writing writing through solidarity Civil Rights Movement Hejinian Lyn open text...

...This chapter discusses Muhammad’s postmortem remains and his daughter Fatima, examining the ways that hadith sources enable and/or limit their potential as sites of baraka’s circulation between bodies. In this chapter, I turned to two questions of Muhammad’s bodily baraka and its continued...

... of Planck, Einstein, and Heisenberg, to explore the culture-specific, culture-transcendent and potentially universal aspects of these factors, focusing on the history and culture of Badakhshan Tajikistan and emphasizing the role of a mystical orientation to life, the spiritual power of baraka...