A Nation Within a Nation

Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power Politics

• Author(s): Komozi Woodard,
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
• Pages: 329
• ISBN_10: 0807847615
  ISBN_13: 9780807847619
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Literary , Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage , Biography & Autobiography / Political , Literary Criticism / American / African American ,

Description:... Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is best known as one of the African American writers who helped ignite the Black Arts Movement. This book examines Baraka's cultural approach to Black Power politics and explores his role in the phenomenal spread of black