Amiri Baraka – Militant Writer and Artist

Donald Friedman interviewed Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) in 2003. An edited excerpt of that interview may be viewed at https://donaldfriedman.com/2019/06/25/amiri-baraka-politics-exists-for-truth-and-beauty/Below are an introduction to the interview and a full transcript of the excerpt.IntroductionA po...

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Argitaratua izan da:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces,
Egile nagusia: Friedman, Donald
Formatua: Article ou chapitre numérique
Hizkuntza:Anglais
Argitaratua: Interfaces 2020
Sarrera elektronikoa:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Gaia:Donald Friedman interviewed Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) in 2003. An edited excerpt of that interview may be viewed at https://donaldfriedman.com/2019/06/25/amiri-baraka-politics-exists-for-truth-and-beauty/Below are an introduction to the interview and a full transcript of the excerpt.IntroductionA political figure whose words were angry, often incendiary, occasionally homophobic, misogynistic and anti-Semitic, Amiri Baraka used his writing first and foremost as agitprop, as a means to change. ...