When Martin Luther’s house was bombed he came out and said “if any blood be shed let it be ours”.Baraka, then named Leroi Jones was repulsed at it and thought to himself that Violence was a language which needs to be expressed as an anti-thesis.This led him to the ideology of Malcolm X which further made him embrace the ideology of Scientific Socialism(Marxism).This book notes down the events that led to the shaping of Amiri Baraka from a Beat Poet to a Revolutionary Artist.
Amiri Baraka: Art and Struggle
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Dibyajit Mukherjee
Genre: Biography, Pages: 124, Binding: Paperback, Language: English, ISBN: 978-93-84333-05-8
When Martin Luther’s house was bombed he came out and said “if any blood be shed let it be ours”.Baraka, then named Leroi Jones was repulsed at it and thought to himself that Violence was a language which needs to be expressed as an anti-thesis.This led him to the ideology of Malcolm X which further made him embrace the ideology of Scientific Socialism(Marxism).This book notes down the events that led to the shaping of Amiri Baraka from a Beat Poet to a Revolutionary Artist.