Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonsense, say the Freudians, who trace tardiness and punctuality-like almost everything else-back to childhood. The person who is habitually late may be rebelling against his parents and, by extension, against all authority, especially the authority of the clock. For him lateness can be a covert expression of his...
RAISE RACE RAYS RAZE: ESSAYS SINCE 1965 by Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones). 169 pages. Random House. $5.95.
For all his bitter denunciations of white civilization as decadent and evil, LeRoi Jones cannot quite flush it from his system. It is as much a part of this 36-year-old black writer as having been the son of a Newark, N.J., postal worker, a graduate of Howard University...
An ambivalent past can be a source of strength and creative energy. Today Jones-also known as Imamu Amiri Baraka-has a black wife and is the leader of Spirit House, an African culture center in Newark. But the past can also cause awkward ironies. Why, for example, should Jones...
As Jones pulls down his traditional Southern homestead traditionally -amid murder and suicide-he strikes the mood usual to Southern novelists: a coverall elegiac sadness. It is a bad time, he suggests, for all. His sociology, to judge by nonfiction accounts, is accurate. But what emerges is less a sense...