Slave Ship (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Anadolu-Okur, Nilgun, Contemporary African-American Theater: Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller, Garland Publishing, 1997.

  This text is an analysis of the impact of three important African-American playwrights in the historical context of Black Theater movements.

• Baraka, Amiri, ed., Confirmation: An Anthology of African-American Women, Morrow, 1983.

  This book is seen as a collection of important writings by African-American women.

• ______, Eulogies, Marsilio Publishers, 1996.

  This work is a collection of eulogies given by Baraka for the funerals of many famous African-American writers, musicians, and intellectuals, including Malcolm X, John Coltrane, James Baldwin, Miles Davis, and Toni Cade Bambara.

• Baraka, Amiri, and Larry Neal, eds., Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing, Morrow, 1968.

  Baraka is a contributor as well as editor of this landmark anthology in African-American literary history.

• Elam, Harry J., Jr., Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka, University of Michigan Press, 1997.

  Elam’s book provides an interesting comparative analysis of the political impact of dramatic productions by Amiri Baraka and Luis Valdez.

• Olaniyan, Tejumola, Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean Drama, Oxford University Press, 1995.

  Olaniyan’s book is a discussion of dramatic performances as political acts of forging “cultural identity” through artistic production.

• Reilly, Charlie, ed., Conversations with Amiri Baraka, University of Mississippi Press, 1994.

  This work is a collection of previously published interviews with Baraka by various writers.

• “. . . THE RITUALISTIC FORMS OF THE PLAY (DANCE, CHANT, AND PANTOMIME) ARE EACH A MICROCOSM OF THE HISTORICAL PROCESS: EACH SYNTHESIZES THE MATERIALS INHERITED FROM A PREVIOUS GENERATION WITH THE EXPERIENCES OF THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD.”