| Description |
xix, 218 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents |
[1.] Essays : Incomplete turn of Larry Neal / Stanley Crouch -- And shine swam on -- Black writer's role, I : Richard Wright -- Black writer's role, II : Ellison's Zoot suit -- Black writer's role, III : James Baldwin -- Black arts movement -- Genius and the prize -- Eatonville's Zora Neale Hurston : a profile -- Uncle Rufus raps on the squared circle -- Ethos of the blues -- My Lord, he calls me by the thunder -- On Malcolm X from "new space/the growth of Black consciousness in the sixties" -- Black power in the international context -- [2.] Drama : In again, out again, Larry Neal / Charles Fuller -- From The glorious monster in the bell of the horn -- [3.] Poetry : Larry's time / Jayne Cortez -- Narrative of the Black magicians -- Shine's sermon on cosmology I -- Shine goes to jail -- Shine touched by death's whisper -- Poppa Stoppa speaks from his grave -- Don't say goodbye to the porkpie hat -- Slave -- Baroness and the Black musician -- For Black writers and artists in "exile" -- Lady's days -- For our women -- Abdul's avatar and the sun sister's song -- Life : hoodoo hollerin' bebop ghosts -- Scag dream -- Ghost poem #1 -- Can you tell this story, or will you send me through all kinds of changes? -- Malcolm X : an autobiography -- 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.
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| Added Author |
Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 1934-2014.
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Schwartz, Michael, 1942-
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| ISBN |
0938410784 : $19.95 |
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0938410776 (pbk.) : $10.95 |
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