{"product_id":"the-system-of-dantes-hell-akashiclassics-renegade-reprint-series-1617753963","title":"The System of Dante's Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1617753963\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Baraka, Amiri\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA reissue of a 1965 novel, a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, spiraling out of Dante's Inferno.Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lost motion of the age . . . the special agony of the American Negro. -New York Times Book ReviewA fevered and impressionistic riff on the struggles of blacks in the urban North and rural South, as told through the prism of The Inferno. . . . Other writers addressed race more directly, but for all its linguistic slipperiness, Barakas language conveys the feelings of fear, violation, and fury with a surprising potency. A pungent and lyrical portrait of mid-60s black protest. -Kirkus ReviewsWith a new introduction by Woodie King Jr.This 1965 novel is a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, structured on the themes of Dantes Inferno: violence, incontinence, fraud, treachery. With a poets skill, Baraka creates the atmosphere of hell, and with dramatic power he reconstructs the brutality of the black slums of Newark, a small Southern town, and New York City. The episodes contained within the novel represent both states of mind and states of the soul-lyrical, fragmentary, and allusive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51322831765792,"sku":"NEW1617753963","price":20.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61EELQkc8AL.jpg?v=1773108320","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-system-of-dantes-hell-akashiclassics-renegade-reprint-series-1617753963","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}