Amiri Baraka
A Lifetime of Saying the Unsayable
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8894775 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Naila Keleta-Mae (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 265-279 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras.2015.005 |
| OpenAlex | W2369349346 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Through the analysis of three poems written at distinct moments in his prolific fifty-year career, this article argues that a central legacy of the work of Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) is the creation of art and scholarship that publicly critiques and provokes the status quo—time and time again, Baraka said the unsayable
Art · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Scholarship · Status quo · Work (physics · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Soviet and Russian History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |