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  • The System of Dante's Hell

    A Novel

    by Amiri Baraka ...
    "A fevered and impressionistic riff on the struggles of blacks in the urban North and rural South, as told through the prism of The Inferno ." — Kirkus ReviewsThis 1965 novel is a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, structured on the themes of Dante's Inferno: violence, incontinence, fraud, and treachery. With a poet's skill, Baraka creates the atmosphere of hell, and with dramatic power ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • S O S

    Poems 1961–2013

    by Amiri Baraka ...
    " S O S provides readers with rich, vital views of the African American experience and of Baraka's own evolution as a poet-activist" ( The Washington Post).Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others was one of the preeminent literary ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tales

    Short Stories

    by Amiri Baraka ...
    Series series AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series
    "A clutch of early stories from the poet, playwright, and provocateur, infused with jazz and informed by racial alienation" ( Kirkus Reviews)."Baraka was, without question, the central figure of the Black Arts Movement, and was the most important theorist of that movement's expression of the 'Black Aesthetic,' which took hold of the African American cultural imagination in earnest in the late ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hungered One

    Short Stories

    by Ed Bullins, Amiri Baraka ...
    Series series AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series
    "A richness of language and observation pervades this collection of short stories by a black writer about real black people" ( The New York Times Book Review).Award-winning playwright Ed Bullins received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for his play The Taking of Miss Janie, and is also renowned for such works as In the Wine Time and Clara's Ole Man. In this collection of his early short ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The System of Dante's Hell

    by Amiri Baraka ...
    Series series AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series
    "Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lost motion of the age...the special agony of the American Negro."--New York Times Book Review"A fevered and impressionistic riff on the struggles of blacks in the urban North and rural South, as told through the prism of The Inferno....Other writers addressed race more directly, but for all its linguistic slipperiness, Baraka's ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Tales of the Out & the Gone

    Short Stories

    by Amiri Baraka ...
    Stories spanning over three decades, many previously unpublished, from "a keen observer of the outlandish and outrageous in politics and human behavior" ( Booklist).Comprising short fiction from the early 1970s to the twenty-first century—most of which has never been published— Tales of the Out & the Gone reflects the astounding evolution of America's most provocative literary anti-hero.The first ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones

    by Amiri Baraka ...
    Discover the definitive, uncut life story of one of America's most influential poets, dramatists, and revolutionary political thinkers.The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones presents the unrestrained personal narrative of Amiri Baraka, charting his transformation from a childhood in Newark, New Jersey, to the center of the Greenwich Village Beat generation, through the founding of the Black Arts ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Let Nobody Turn Us Around

    An African American Anthology

    by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Richard Allen, Molefi Kete Asante, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Cyril V. Briggs, Stokely Carmichael, Frederick Douglass, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, Olaudah Equiano, Louis Farrakhan, Henry Highland Garnet, Fannie Lou Hamer, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, bell hooks, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Audre Lorde, Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Claude McKay, Elijah Muhammad, Huey P. Newton, Solomon Northrup, Rosa Parks, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., A Philip Randolph, Paul Robeson, Jo Ann Robinson, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Bayard Rustin, Maria W. Stewart, Mary Church Terell, Sojourner Truth, Nat Turner, David Walker, Booker T. Washington, Harold Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Roy Wilkins, William Julius Wilson ...
    This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the twentieth century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable and Mullings, introduce the reader to the character and important controversies of each period ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Home

    Social Essays

    by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) ...
    Narrated by Brad Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 7 min

    Home is, in effect, the ideological autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka. The two dozen essays that constitute this book were written during a five-year span—a turbulent and critical period for African Americans and whites. The Cuban Revolution, the Birmingham bombings, Robert Williams’s Monroe Defense movement, the Harlem riots, the assassination of Malcolm X . . . each changed the way Jones ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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