001480187 000__ 05945nam\a22008415i\4500 001480187 001__ 1480187 001480187 003__ DE-B1597 001480187 005__ 20231026035129.0 001480187 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001480187 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001480187 008__ 220729t20012001nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001480187 020__ $$a9780814784556 001480187 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)548650 001480187 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001480187 0410_ $$aeng 001480187 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001480187 050_4 $$aPS3552.A583$$bZ93 2001eb 001480187 072_7 $$aSOC001000$$2bisacsh 001480187 08204 $$a818/.5409$$221 001480187 1001_ $$aWatts, Jerry, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001480187 24510 $$aAmiri Baraka :$$bThe Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual /$$cJerry Watts. 001480187 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2001] 001480187 264_4 $$c©2001 001480187 300__ $$a1 online resource 001480187 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001480187 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001480187 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001480187 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001480187 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tPreface -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1 Birth of an Intellectual Journey -- $$t2 Bohemian Immersions -- $$t3 An Alien among Outsiders -- $$t4 Rejecting Bohemia: The Politicization of Ethnic Guilt -- $$t5 The Quest for a Blacker Art -- $$t6 Toward a Black Arts Infrastructure -- $$t7 Black Arts Poet and Essayist -- $$t8 Black Revolutionary Playwright -- $$t9 Kawaida: Totalizing the Commitment -- $$t10 The Slave as Master: Black Nationalism, Kawaida, and the Repression of Women -- $$t11 New-Ark and the Emergence of Pragmatic Nationalism -- $$t12 Pan-Africanism -- $$t13 National Black Political Convention -- $$t14 Ever Faithful: Toward a Religious Marxism -- $$t15 The Artist as Marxist / The Marxist as Artist -- $$tConclusion -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001480187 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001480187 520__ $$aAmiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones, became known as one of the most militant, anti-white black nationalists of the 1960s Black Power movement. An advocate of Black Cultural Nationalism, Baraka supported the rejection of all things white and western. He helped found and direct the influential Black Arts movement which sought to move black writers away from western aesthetic sensibilities and toward a more complete embrace of the black world. Except perhaps for James Baldwin, no single figure has had more of an impact on black intellectual and artistic life during the last forty years. In this groundbreaking and comprehensive study, the first to interweave Baraka's art and political activities, Jerry Watts takes us from his early immersion in the New York scene through the most dynamic period in the life and work of this controversial figure. Watts situates Baraka within the various worlds through which he travelled including Beat Bohemia, Marxist-Leninism, and Black Nationalism. In the process, he convincingly demonstrates how the 25 years between Baraka's emergence in 1960 and his continued influence in the mid-1980s can also be read as a general commentary on the condition of black intellectuals during the same time. Continually using Baraka as the focal point for a broader analysis, Watts illustrates the link between Baraka's life and the lives of other black writers trying to realize their artistic ambitions, and contrasts him with other key political intellectuals of the time. In a chapter sure to prove controversial, Watts links Baraka's famous misogyny to an attempt to bury his own homosexual past. A work of extraordinary breadth, Amira Baraka is a powerful portrait of one man's lifework and the pivotal time it represents in African-American history. Informed by a wealth of original research, it fills a crucial gap in the lively literature on black thought and history and will continue to be a touchstone work for some time to come. 001480187 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001480187 546__ $$aIn English. 001480187 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. 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