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Introduction. Amiri Baraka, the Umbra Workshop, and the writing of literary history
Baraka and Umbra
"A tale of two cities" : Umbra, internationalism and the death of Lumumba
"Poems that kill" : Amiri Baraka's magic words
"Space of a nation" : David Henderson writes the city
Language, violence and "the collective mind" in Calvin C. Hernton
"Home is nowhere where you were born" : Calvin Hernton's "Medicine man"
"Return to English turn" : Tom Dent
Memory and myth in Lorenzo Thomas' "The bathers".
Baraka and Umbra
"A tale of two cities" : Umbra, internationalism and the death of Lumumba
"Poems that kill" : Amiri Baraka's magic words
"Space of a nation" : David Henderson writes the city
Language, violence and "the collective mind" in Calvin C. Hernton
"Home is nowhere where you were born" : Calvin Hernton's "Medicine man"
"Return to English turn" : Tom Dent
Memory and myth in Lorenzo Thomas' "The bathers".