Four Black Revolutionary Plays - Softcover

Baraka, Amiri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714530050 ISBN 13: 9780714530055

Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

These four one-act plays deal with the African-American experience of today. Their central elements are love and hatred echoed in violently explosive words, actions, thoughts and metaphor. The sum total of three hundred years of contained fury, they are powerful statements about the real meaning of white oppression of black people. In their militancy and anger, they perfectly express the mood and frustrations of black America and are as relevant today as when they were first publicly performed. This edition contains a foreword by playright, novelist, journalist and lecturer Lindsay Barrett, who has also made widely acclaimed radio and TV programs on jazz, the arts and African cultural matters.

About this title

About the Author:

Writing originally as LeRoi Jones, Amiri Baraka has been both a major literary figure and a political advocate of great influence in the black community during the course of a career spanning four decades. He has written fiction, essays, poetry an autobiography and plays, one of which, Dutchman, won him an Obie for Best American Play and was later made into a feature film.

About this edition

• Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0714530050
• ISBN 13: 9780714530055
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 105