Product Description
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 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.
