Amiri Baraka collection of playscripts 1964-1986

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Amiri Baraka collection of playscripts 1964-1986

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The Amiri Baraka Collection of Playscripts includes more than thirty plays and screenplays including such early works as "The Toilet" (1964) in addition to "Jello," "Slave Ship," and "S-1." Some items have been produced and published, but included in the material is a quantity of unproduced and unpublished works. The collection consists of holographs scripts, some with the author's annotations and changes; typescripts, rehearsal scripts, some with changes and productions; production files and a photocopy of a galley.

1.6 lin. ft.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Section

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Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014

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Amiri Baraka was born LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, in 1934. He was educated at Rutgers and Howard Universities, graduating from the latter at the age of 19. In 1958 he founded the influential poetry magazine Yugen, which ran until 1962. His writings, including fiction, essays, and poetry, appeared in such publications as The nation, Evergreen review, Downbeat, and The floating bear. From the description of Imamu Amiri Baraka papers, 1958-1982. (University of California, Berkele...