The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka

Résumé du livre

This prose-poem styled memoir of poet, novelist, playwright and black activist delineates the politics and the personal drama of the man who has dared face injustice with violence and flaunted his pride in black chauvinism. Chronicling the first forty years of his life, the book tells how Jones/Baraka comes into being from his middle-class roots in Newark, and how his journey through Howard University, the Air Force, beat Greenwich Village, incendiary Harlem, polemic Newark and the caverns of his own heart dictated his reaction to a racist society and etched the nuances of his soul. His testimony is an unreplicable view of the recent struggles of black Americans and the society which they have confronted. ISBN 0-88191-000-7 : $16.95.