1410240Taleshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/tales-7/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1139650/c78459ab-fcff-4b2d-b939-cb3650dad879.jpg?v=638337462187570000188229MXNAkashic BooksInStock/Ebooks/A clutch of early stories from the poet, playwright, and provocateur, infused with jazz and informed by racial alienation (Kirkus Reviews).Baraka was, without question, the central figure of the Black Arts Movement, and was the most important theorist of that movements expression of the Black Aesthetic, which took hold of the African American cultural imagination in earnest in the late sixties. While known primarily for his plays, poems, and criticism of black music, Baraka was also a master of the short story form, as this collection attests. Tales first appeared in 1967 and is an impressionistic and sometimes surrealistic collection of short fiction, showcasing Amiri Barakas great impact on African American literature of the 1950s and 1960s. Tales is a critical volume in Amiri Barakas oeuvre, and an important testament to his remarkable literary legacy. Henry Louis Gates Jr.The sixteen artful and nuanced stories in this reissue of Amiri Barakas seminal 1967 collection fall into two parts: the first nine concern themselves with the sensibility of a hip, perceptive young black man in white America. The last seven stories endeavor to place that same man within the context of his awareness of and participation in a rapidly emerging and powerfully felt negritude. They deal, it might be said, with the black man in black America. Yet these tales are not social tracts, but absolutely masterful fictionprovocative, witty, and, at times, bitter and aggressive....1396276Tales188229https://www.gandhi.com.mx/tales-7/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1139650/c78459ab-fcff-4b2d-b939-cb3650dad879.jpg?v=638337462187570000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20169781617754159_W3siaWQiOiI1OGM2ODk0My1hZGE2LTRkMjItOTY3My0wZDA3MzQ2YmM5NjgiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjIyOSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjQxLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjE4OCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMDQtMjRUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781617754159_A clutch of early stories from the poet, playwright, and provocateur, infused with jazz and informed by racial alienation (Kirkus Reviews).Baraka was, without question, the central figure of the Black Arts Movement, and was the most important theorist of that movements expression of the Black Aesthetic, which took hold of the African American cultural imagination in earnest in the late sixties. While known primarily for his plays, poems, and criticism of black music, Baraka was also a master of the short story form, as this collection attests. Tales first appeared in 1967 and is an impressionistic and sometimes surrealistic collection of short fiction, showcasing Amiri Barakas great impact on African American literature of the 1950s and 1960s. Tales is a critical volume in Amiri Barakas oeuvre, and an important testament to his remarkable literary legacy. Henry Louis Gates Jr.The sixteen artful and nuanced stories in this reissue of Amiri Barakas seminal 1967 collection fall into two parts: the first nine concern themselves with the sensibility of a hip, perceptive young black man in white America. The last seven stories endeavor to place that same man within the context of his awareness of and participation in a rapidly emerging and powerfully felt negritude. They deal, it might be said, with the black man in black America. Yet these tales are not social tracts, but absolutely masterful fictionprovocative, witty, and, at times, bitter and aggressive....9781617754159_Akashic Bookslibro_electonico_7f42b689-d2e9-3d43-9d77-674febf2b820_9781617754159;9781617754159_9781617754159Amiri BarakaInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/openroadmedia-epub-56249feb-0131-42f6-b882-b7dcca5b7115.epub2016-02-16T00:00:00+00:00Akashic Books