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Grundy, David (2014) Amiri Baraka 1934-2014. Paideuma : Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, 41 . pp. 282-287.
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Abstract
The poet, playwright, essayist, political activist and organizer Amiri Baraka- previously known as Imamu Amiri Baraka, Ameer Barakat, LeRoi Jones, and Everett Leroy Jones- died at the start of 2014. The news of his death came through on January 9th, the same day as the news, in the UK, of the acquittal of the policemen who mur- dered Mark Duggan, a verdict that gave symbolic and legal "justifi- cation" for the preemptive execution of those the State and its enforcers consider "undesirables." In August 2011, Duggan s murder sparked weeks of rioting, in London and beyond, that shook the gov- ernment and the media establishment- both in its liberal and con- servative wings- to its very core; the reaction of an underclass, not only to the particular incident that triggered it, but to the continuing felt effects of the politics of "austerity," welfare cuts, criminalization, job loss, the daily tension between that to which one is told to aspire and the real impossibility of such aspiration ever being realized.
Item Type: | Journal Item | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Paideuma : Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics | ||||
Publisher: | National Poetry Foundation ; University of Maine | ||||
Official Date: | 2014 | ||||
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Volume: | 41 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 6 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 282-287 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Version or Related Resource: | http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/contemporary/?p=848 | ||||
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