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    A Study Guide for Amiri Baraka's "In Memory of Radio"
    A Study Guide for Amiri Baraka's "In Memory of Radio"
    A Study Guide for Amiri Baraka's "In Memory of Radio"
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    A Study Guide for Amiri Baraka's "In Memory of Radio"

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    A Study Guide for Amiri Baraka's "In Memory of Radio," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535825801
    A Study Guide for Amiri Baraka's "In Memory of Radio"

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      A Study Guide for Amiri Baraka's "In Memory of Radio" - Gale

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      In Memory of Radio

      Amiri Baraka

      1961

      Introduction

      In Memory of Radio appears in Baraka’s first collection of poetry, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, published in 1961. Baraka was then known as LeRoi Jones. Although the poems in this collection express disaffection with conventional social values and mores, they do not embody the often strident political views Baraka became known for later in his career, when he embraced Black nationalism and then international Marxism. The third poem in the collection, In Memory of Radio comes just before a poem to his wife, For Hettie. It is not, however, about memory or, necessarily, radio. Rather, Baraka uses these subjects to explore ideas of taste, technology, imagination, identity, and the poet’s role in society. Written in free verse and employing a conversational, sometimes humorous voice, the poem uses the speaker’s memory of radio shows to ostensibly evoke a sense of nostalgia and loss. In actuality, the poem comments on the very insidiousness of radio itself, and how the medium commands human attention and creates a reality separate from the one in which human beings live. The central image in the poem is a superhero from comic books and radio shows called The Shadow. Under the cloak of invisibility, The Shadow hunts down and roots out evil in the world. The words he uttered after he transformed himself from Lamont Cranston, a millionaire playboy, to The Shadow have become a part of

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