Download or read book The Baptism written by Amiri Baraka and published by New York : Grove Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Baptism and The Toilet are two of LeRoi Jones' earliest plays. The Baptism, a viciously comic assault on diverse hypocrisies--religious, social, sexual--which inform contemporary American life, and The Toilet, a tough, relentless study of tenderness crushed and destroyed by an adolescent code of violence, comprise a pair of the most powerful one-act plays to be produced in New York in years."--Back cover.
Download or read book The Baptism the Toilet By Leroi Jones written by Imamu Amiri Baraka and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Baptism the Toilet written by LeRoi Baraka and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The baptism and The toilet written by Le Roi Jones and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Baptism and The Toilet written by Imamu Amiri Baraka and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The baptism written by LeRoi Jones and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Baptism the Toilet written by Le Roi Jones and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Search of a Model for African American Drama written by Philip U. Effiong and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2000 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of a Model for African-American Drama, is a comparative study of how these three dramatists seek and devise new models to address the specific conditions of Blacks in America. Each writer relies on a different approach, each powerful, yet apparently contradictory. The author examines the dramatists' work in detail, exploring common and contrasting themes and models.
Download or read book Baptism by Toilet Water written by James F. Winter and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baptism by Toilet Water is Jim Winter's bittersweet memoir documenting the hardship his family endured while, ironically, Jim's grandparents, who exemplified Christian living, were right next door.'Our home life was the furthest thing from a Christian home, yet our grandparents were the spiritual paragons we so desperately needed. Unfortunately, as long as our father remained in the picture, there was little hope. Our grandparents' home served as a sanctuary, but we were still trapped. We could see paradise from our fence, but at best we could only visit from time to time.'Throughout their tumultuous childhood, the Winter children grappled with this stark contradiction of moral values between their father and grandparents, leading them to ultimately learn that good can come from bad. After high school, Jim leaves his home, believing the worst is behind him. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. As illness and death ravage the family, Jim becomes stricken with grief. Convinced God had forsaken him, Jim becomes tormented by guilt from his past. When it seems like all hope is lost, a series of remarkable events begins to unfold in what can only be described as divine intervention. Through Jim'sBaptism by Toilet Waterhe comes to realize that Jesus Christ is illuminating the way through it all.
Download or read book The African American Bookshelf written by Clifford Mason and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted scholar Clifford Mason showcases 50 of the most significant books that document and celebrate the bravery, spirit, and tenacity of a people from before the Civil War to the present day, and provides commentary on each work's place in history.
Download or read book Amiri Baraka written by Jerry Watts and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones, became known as one of the most militant, anti-white black nationalists of the 1960s Black Power movement. An advocate of Black Cultural Nationalism, Baraka supported the rejection of all things white and western. He helped found and direct the influential Black Arts movement which sought to move black writers away from western aesthetic sensibilities and toward a more complete embrace of the black world. Except perhaps for James Baldwin, no single figure has had more of an impact on black intellectual and artistic life during the last forty years. In this groundbreaking and comprehensive study, the first to interweave Baraka's art and political activities, Jerry Watts takes us from his early immersion in the New York scene through the most dynamic period in the life and work of this controversial figure. Watts situates Baraka within the various worlds through which he travelled including Beat Bohemia, Marxist-Leninism, and Black Nationalism. In the process, he convincingly demonstrates how the 25 years between Baraka's emergence in 1960 and his continued influence in the mid-1980s can also be read as a general commentary on the condition of black intellectuals during the same time. Continually using Baraka as the focal point for a broader analysis, Watts illustrates the link between Baraka's life and the lives of other black writers trying to realize their artistic ambitions, and contrasts him with other key political intellectuals of the time. In a chapter sure to prove controversial, Watts links Baraka's famous misogyny to an attempt to bury his own homosexual past. A work of extraordinary breadth, Amira Baraka is a powerful portrait of one man's lifework and the pivotal time it represents in African-American history. Informed by a wealth of original research, it fills a crucial gap in the lively literature on black thought and history and will continue to be a touchstone work for some time to come.
Download or read book Modern American Drama Playwriting in the 1960s written by Mike Sell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Edward Albee: The American Dream (1960), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966) and Tiny Alice (1964 ); * Amiri Baraka: Dutchman (1964), The Slave (1964) and Slaveship (1967); * Adrienne Kennedy: Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964), Cities in Bezique (The Owl Answers and A Beast's Story, 1969), and A Rat's Mass (1967); * Jean-Claude van Itallie: American Hurrah (1966), The Serpent (1968) and War (1963).
Download or read book Twentieth Century American Literature written by Warren French and published by Springer. This book was released on 1980-11-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of Black Theater in America written by Leslie Catherine Sanders and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1989-08-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Development of Black Theater in America, Leslie Sanders examines the work of the American black theater’s five most productive playwrights: Willis Richardson, Randolph Edmonds, Langston Hughes, LeRoi Jones, and Ed Bullins. Sanders sees the history of black theater as the process of creating a “black stage reality” while at the same time transforming conventions borrowed from white European culture into forms appropriate to black artists and audiences. The author argues that only when these things were accomplished could the aim of black playwrights, often articulated as “the realistic portrayal of the Negro,” be fully realized. This study also examines the changing nature of the dialogue black playwrights have held with the dominant tradition and how that dialogue has shaped their imaginations. Sanders’ discussion of Richardson, Edmonds, Hughes, Jones, and Bullins provides a context for approaching the work of other black playwrights, such as James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, and Owen Dodson. And her argument provides a concrete way of understanding how the context of a dominant culture influences the artistic imagination of writers not of that culture, who must come to terms with its influences and transform it into a vehicle of their own.
Download or read book Baptized in the Water written by Glenys Nellist and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading about baptism can help children understand how, through baptism, we become members of God’s great family. Baptized in the Water, written by bestselling author Glenys Nellist, is a beautifully illustrated picture book that celebrates that very important event, no matter when or what form baptism takes in a person’s life. Baptized in the Water: Becoming a Member of God’s Family: Features beautiful prose and poetry that celebrates and explains baptism Illustrates various forms of baptism, from infant to adult Showcases various Christian faith traditions through vibrant illustrations Is perfect for baptism and newborn gifts Baptized in the Water engages children as it begins with the example set by Jesus and shows readers that even though there are varying ways to be baptized, the meaning is the same: in baptism, we all belong to God. And that is a beautiful thing.Baptized in the water, Like Jesus long ago. God’s Holy Spirit dances, As waters gently flow. Also by Glenys Nellist: the Snuggle Time and Letters from God series, Twas the Evening of Christmas, Twas the Morning of Easter, and The Wonder That Is You.
Download or read book Water Come Down written by Walter Wangerin and published by Augsburg Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sun, cloud, rain, wind, water, and the whole of creation join family and friends in celebrating the baptism of a child of God.
Download or read book To Raise Destroy and Create written by Henry C. Lacey and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the works of Imamu Amiri Baraka written between 1960 and 1970. Baraka is represented as an example of black America searching for identity, purpose and direction. This search, examined by Lacey, is embodied by Baraka's achievements.
