The System of Dante’s Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series)
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Imprint: Akashic Books
(Jan 05, 2016)
Fiction, Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 9781617753961
Fiction, Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 9781617753961
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Description of The System of Dante’s Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series)
"Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lost motion of the age…the special agony of the American Negro."
—New York Times Book Review
With a new introduction by Woodie King Jr.
This 1965 novel is a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, structured on the themes of Dante’s Inferno: violence, incontinence, fraud, treachery. With a poet’s skill Baraka creates the atmosphere of hell, and with dramatic power he reconstructs the brutality of the black slums of Newark, a small Southern town, and New York City. The episodes contained within the novel represent both states of mind and states of the soul—lyrical, fragmentary, and allusive.
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More on the Black Arts Movement: https://aalbc.com/authors/blackartsmovement.htm
Amiri Baraka: Evolution of a Revolutionary Poet. Exhibit at Zambezi Bazaar in conjunction with the Leimert Park Book Fair.
Amiri Baraka is one of the most prolific African American writers of the 20th century. He is an acclaimed poet and the Obie-winning playwright of Dutchman. His long list of writing credits includes: Blues People; Home; Social Essays; Black Fire; Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka / LeRoi Jones and Selected Plays and Prose of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones. He continues to be active in the struggle against racism and capitalism, to organize artists, and to participate in the struggle for Black Liberation. Produced by AALBC.com
