Baraka, A. (English spelling) BarakaA

Japanese: Baraka,A.(英語表記)BarakaA
Baraka, A. (English spelling) BarakaA

…At the height of the black liberation struggle in 1967-68, he was a leading figure among radical black writers and took action. He advocated “literature as a revolutionary weapon,” and at one point he leaned toward Marxism and then Maoism. He even changed his name to the Arabic word Amiri Baraka and strongly advocated the abolition of white values. His book The Soul of the Blues (1963), subtitled “Black Music in White America,” is an excellent work that examines jazz and blues from a historical and social perspective. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Baraka, A." is listed below.

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Japanese:

…1967‐68年の黒人解放闘争の高揚期には,急進的黒人文学者グループの旗頭的存在として実際行動に挺身した。〈革命の武器としての文学〉を唱え,一時はマルクス主義を経て毛沢東主義へ傾斜し,名前もアラビア語のバラカAmiri Barakaに変えて,白人的価値観の廃絶をつよく主張している。また,〈白いアメリカの黒い音楽〉の副題をもつ《ブルースの魂》(1963)は,ジャズとブルースを歴史社会的にとらえた好著である。…

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