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- 1971 - 1983 (Creation)
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Scope and content
Amiri Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones), material by Mottram: typescript account of Jones' life and works, with manuscript draft, published as 'Poetry in motion' Marxism Today 44 (London, May 1991), 2 pages; further typescript and manuscript notes by Mottram headed 'LeRoi Jones / Imamu Amirir (sic) Baraka', and including some details of the Black writer Langston Hughes; two typescript copies, with manuscript corrections, of Mottram essay headed 'LeRoi Jones' and opening 'October, 1965, carried LeRoi Jones into public life', one copy endorsed 'August 1971'; offprint of final version of above essay headed 'Towards the alternative: the prose of LeRoi Jones', opening 'October 1965 carried LeRoi Jones into public life...', published in Black fiction: new studies in the Afro-American novel since 1945 ed. A. Robert Lee (Barnes & Noble, New York, and Vision, London, 1980) pp. 97-135; Mottram manuscript review-essay of Jones' Raise Race Rays Raze (1971); typescript copies (apparently by Mottram) of Baraka poems, including 'A poem some people will have to understand' and 'The plank'; photocopy of Baraka prose item 'When Miles split' from Sulfur 30 (Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1992) 4-6, 2 copies; newspaper cuttings on Jones (Baraka), 1983, including unsourced interview by Val Wilmer