Finding Aid for the Amiri Baraka Papers LSC.0491
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Correspondence and Manuscripts
B 1959-1966
D circa 1963
K 1961
L 1959-1960
R 1961
T circa 1961
V 1961-1963
Unidentified 1957-1963
Finding aid prepared by Tine Brouwer; re-processed by Doug Johnson, October, 2016; machine-readable finding aid created by
Caroline Cubé
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated 5 July 2017.
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Title: Amiri Baraka papers
Creator:
Baraka, Amiri
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0491
Physical Description:
1.6 Linear Feet
(4 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1952-1966
Abstract: Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) was the founder and editor of the literary journals
Yugen and
Kulchur. An outspoken public intellectual, he was the author of poetry, plays, novels, and essays. The collection consists of poetry
manuscripts and correspondence submitted to Baraka while editor of
Yugen. Some material relates to
Kulchur.
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[Identification of item], Amiri Baraka Papers (Collection 491). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processed by Tine Brouwer; re-processed by Doug Johnson, October, 2016. Re-processed primarily to eliminate some ambiguities
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
994622893606533
Amiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones on October 7, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers University and graduated
from Howard University. After some graduate study in New York City, he joined the U.S. Air Force. Upon his discharge he returned
to New York and took up writing poetry in earnest. To distribute the work of other poets as well, he and his wife, Hettie
Cohen, founded Totem Press and the literary journal
Yugen. With the poet Diana di Prima, he also founded the journal
Kulchur. Always politically active, throughout the 1960s, he became more radical and embraced Black nationalism. Later, he distanced
himself from Black nationalism to adopt a more globalistic Communism. For the rest of his life, he would be known as much
for his controversial political views as for his poetry. Baraka died on January 9, 2014 in the city of his birth.
The collection consists of correspondence as well as poetry manuscripts submitted to Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), editor of
Yugen. Some material relates to
Kulchur. Correspondents include Jonas Mekas, John Rechy, Diane Wakoski, and Philip Whalen.
The collection is arranged alphabetically by correspondent and manuscript author.
Beat generation -- Poetry.
Manuscripts for publication
Periodical editors -- United States -- Archives.
African American poets -- Archives.
African American dramatists -- Archives.
African American authors -- Archives.
Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014--Archives.
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