Thursday, January 9, 2014

Amiri Baraka


              He died at 79 in January 9, 2014. He was a black person writer of poetry and so on. He was born at Newark in America in 1934. His works were seen many people all over the world. His first poetry was published in 1961. His famous works are, for example, “blues people” is non-fiction and especially relating to the beginning of the free jazz movement in 1963. His writing style was a little nationalism because he related deeply to human rights campaign that is Malcolm X and so on. For instance, Dutchman and The Slave are characteristic products. Then, his writer name changed from “Leroi Jones” to “Amiri Baraka” when his religion became Islam and he divorced white wife. In 1960s and 1970s, he worked in order to spread black person cultures. But, he admired Marxism in 1980s. So, he separated from his built organization that worked these. After that he had been said to spread the right of black person and supported black was received discrimination. However the class of black person society was separated. So, his works criticized the middle class black person who admired value of white person and his position was difficult. Finally, he had been worked in order to spread the right of black person by written things.  

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