아미리 바라카

소개

아미리 바라카(Amiri Baraka, 1934년 10월 7일~2014년 1월 9일)은 미국의 극작가다. 전에는 리로이 존스(LeRoi Jones)으로 알려졌으며, 가끔 논쟁적 인물로 알려졌고 버펄로와 스토니브룩에 있는 뉴욕 주립 대학교에서 강의하기도 하였다.

Amiri Baraka, previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University. He received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. Baraka's plays, poetry, and essays have been described by scholars as constituting defining texts for African-American culture.