The System of Dante's Hell

Name: The System of Dante's Hell
Author: LeRoi Jones Baraka

by LeRoi Jones Baraka

Semi-autobiographical novel exploring jazz, race, and identity through fragmented narrative

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LeRoi Jones Baraka

Before and after his transformation into Amiri Baraka, LeRoi Jones wrote the autobiographical novel The System of Dante's Hell, a fragmentary, incantatory account of growing up Black in Newark. His early fiction bridged the Beat and Black Arts movements.

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