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Amiri Baraka

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Topic
The thesis proposed herein will attempt to locate the literary works and interpretations of Amiri Baraka in the trajectory and changes of his personal biography as well as in the broader schema of the American and English literary traditions. His works, his biography, and a the historical currents of the Civil Rights Movement and its aftermath, as well as the current of literary genre were all (and arguably still are) in constant dialogue with each other through complex patterns of influence. The thesis proposed herein will attempt to make explicit some of these complex connections through a use of diverse sources and types of information related to Baraka and the period of his work.
Thesis Statement
The thesis proposed herein will specifically attempt to deconstruct concepts of race and identity in the literary works of Amiri Baraka. These are to be seen as highly subjective, transformative, and ever-changing concepts, and as such bear a strong relationship to the specific contexts of their use and conceptualization. Barakas impact on the Civil Rights Movement and the African Americanas well as the purely American and even the universalliterary canon is difficult to overstate; his play, poems, and essays