Book Description
This book is a provocative and enlightening study of the fiction of LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Ishmael Reed and Samuel R. Delany, three black American writers who are among the most gifted literary artists of the past twenty-five years. These authors, who emerged in the tumultuous period of the 1960s, when the complacencies of the previous decade were being challenged throughout the country, are examined here within the context of Afro-American literature. ... Read more

Product Description
Centered squarely on the Negro-white conflict, both Dutchman and The Slave are literally shocking plays-in ideas, in language, in honest anger. They illuminate as with a flash of lightning a deadly serious problem-and they bring an eloquent and exceptionally powerful voice to the American theatre. ... Read more