Our panels at the American Literature Association Conference, May 26-29, 2016, Hyatt Regency San Francisco

Friday, May 27, 2016–9:40-11:00am

Session 8-L

Baraka, Black Power, Black Consciousness, and the Bay

(Bay Level: Seacliff A)

Organized by The Amiri Baraka Society

Chair: Gregory Pierrot,University of Connecticut at Stamford

1.

“Amiri Baraka’s Theater of Ritual: From Staging Rituals of Unfulfillment to Performing Rituals of Political Praxis,” Samy Azouz, University of Kairouan

2.

“Institutional Consciousness: Amiri Baraka’s ‘Board of Education’ and ‘

Police,’”Simon Abramowitsch, University of California, Davis

3.

“Boogaloo to This: Baraka, SFSU, and Third World Politics,” Jean-Philippe Marcoux, Université Laval, Quebec

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