- unitid
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{"value"=>"20637", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 279", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1964-1986", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1964/1986"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Amiri Baraka collection of playscripts"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"4 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1.67 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Amiri Baraka Collection of Playscripts includes more than thirty plays and screenplays including such early works as <span class=\"title\">The Toilet</span> (1964) in addition to <span class=\"title\">Jello</span>, <span class=\"title\">Slave Ship</span>, and <span class=\"title\">S-1</span>."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Imamu Amiri Baraka is a writer whose variety of forms include drama, poetry, music criticism, fiction, autobiography and the essay. As a major and controversial author, his ideas and art - especially, as the primary architect of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960's - have had a profound influence on the direction of subsequent African-American literature.</p> <p>Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey of working class parents; he attended Rutgers, Howard, and Columbia Universities and the New School for Social Research. He has taught at several universities and founded the Black Arts Repertory Theater School in Harlem in 1964. His literary career began in 1958 when he founded <span class=\"title\">Yugen</span> magazine and Totem Press. Although Baraka started publishing in the early 1960s, he did not achieve fame until the 1964 publication of his play <span class=\"title\">Dutchman</span>, later made into a movie. Other important plays he wrote include <span class=\"title\">The Slave</span> (1964) and <span class=\"title\">Toilet</span> (1964). A prolific writer, Baraka has published two books of poetry, <span class=\"title\">Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note</span> (1961) and <span class=\"title\">The Dead Lecturer</span> (1964). The mid 1960s saw the publication of <span class=\"title\">The System of Dante's Hell</span>, a novel, and <span class=\"title\">Tales</span>, a collection of short stories. Baraka also wrote a major social-aesthetic study of African-American music, <span class=\"title\">Blues People: Negro Music in White America</span> (1963).</p> <p>Baraka's career has gone through a series of dramatic stages, from his Beatnik years in the late 1950s through the early 1960s when he refused to take action in the world, to black cultural nationalist, renouncing the white world in the mid-1960s through mid-1970s, to a Marxist-Leninist rejecting monopoly capitalism starting in the mid-1970s. In 1974, dramatically reversing himself, Baraka rejected black nationalism as racist and became a Third World Socialist. Some critics see Baraka as one of this century's major literary figures who has significantly affected the course of African American literary culture.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Amiri Baraka Collection of Playscripts includes more than thirty plays and screenplays including such early works as <span class=\"title\">The Toilet</span> (1964) in addition to <span class=\"title\">Jello</span>, <span class=\"title\">Slave Ship</span>, and <span class=\"title\">S-1</span>. Some items have been produced and published, but included in the material is a quantity of unproduced and unpublished works. The collection consists of holographs scripts, some with the author's annotations and changes; typescripts, rehearsal scripts, some with changes and productions; production files and a photocopy of a galley.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Purchase, Glenn Horowitz, Bookseller, Inc, 1988</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division: 12 original black and white photographs from the original 1964 production of the <span class=\"title\">Dutchman</span> at the Cherry Lane Theatre, New York City, and 1 black and white photograph from the 1962 production of <span class=\"title\">The Toilet</span></p>"}
- date_start
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1964
- keydate
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1964
- date_end
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1986
- date_inclusive_start
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1964
- date_inclusive_end
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1986
- extent_statement
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1.67 linear feet (4 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Amiri Baraka collection of playscripts, Sc MG 279, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}