The Fiction of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka

by Baraka, Imamu Amiri; Barake, Amiri

• ISBN13: 9781556523533
• ISBN10: 155652353X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Independent Pub Group

Summary

LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka is most famous for his Afrocentric plays and poetry, but he also published a novel and a book of short stories in the 1960s. This volume includes both of these long-out-of-print masterpieces, and supplements them with four previously uncollected stories and a previously unpublished novel entitled 6 Persons. Until his adoption of black nationalism, Jones was thought of as a beat writer, and his autobiographical fiction shares the self-consciousness and restlessness of Jack Kerouac and Hubert Selby.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Suppose Sorrow Was a Time Machine (1958)	1	(4)
Round Trip (1959)	5	(4)
the man who sold pictures of god (1960)	9	(6)
The System of Dante's Hell (1965)	15	(112)
Tales (1967)	127	(96)
A Chase (Alighieri's Dream)	129	(2)
The Alternative	131	(18)
The Largest Ocean in the World	149	(4)
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Alternate Ending	153	(6)
The Death of Horatio Alger	159	(6)
Going Down Slow	165	(10)
Heroes Are Gang Leaders	175	(6)
The Screamers	181	(6)
Salute	187	(6)
Words	193	(2)
New-Sense	195	(4)
Unfinished	199	(6)
New Spirit	205	(4)
No Body No Place	209	(4)
Now and Then	213	(6)
Answers in Progress	219	(4)
God and Machine (1973)	223	(4)
6 Persons (1973--1974)	227