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And when I die, I won't stay dead is a documentary film about the life and work of African-American poet Bob Kaufman, directed by Billy Woodberry which was shown at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2015, [1] opened MoMa's Doc Fortnight in 2016 [2] and won the award for Best Investigative Documentary at Doclisboa International Film Festival in 2015. [3]

African-American literature body of literature by Americans of African descent

African-American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of slave narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were accounts by people who had generally escaped from slavery, about their journeys to freedom and ways they claimed their lives. The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s was a great period of flowering in literature and the arts, influenced both by writers who came North in the Great Migration and those who were immigrants from Jamaica and other Caribbean islands. African-American writers have been recognized by the highest awards, including the Nobel Prize given to Toni Morrison in 1993. Among the themes and issues explored in this literature are the role of African Americans within the larger American society, African-American culture, racism, slavery, and social equality. African-American writing has tended to incorporate oral forms, such as spirituals, sermons, gospel music, blues, or rap.

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Robert Garnell Kaufman was an American Beat poet and surrealist as well as a jazz performance artist and satirist. In France, where his poetry had a large following, he was known as the "black American Rimbaud."

Billy Woodberry is one of the leading directors of the L.A. Rebellion. He is best known for directing the 1984 feature film, Bless Their Little Hearts (1984), which was honored at the Berlin International Film Festival.

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Synopsis

A journey into the life and work of beat poet and activist Bob Kaufman and his insistence that poetry is fundamental to humanity's moral survival. [4]

Screenings

Reviews

Ernst Hardy wrote at the Crave Online that " Woodberry's fully fleshed out depiction of the larger cultural, social and political canvases against which Kaufman lived and railed." [7] Neil Young from the Hollywood Reporter called the film a "Conscientious tribute to a wayward soul." [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "And When I Die I Won't Stay Dead". 2016-01-18. Archived from the original on 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  2. 1 2 "MoMA | Doc Fortnight 2016: Actions of the Past, Shockwaves in the Present". www.moma.org. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  3. ↑ "Doclisboa 2015 | Awards". doclisboa.org. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  4. ↑ Woodberry, Billy (2016-01-11), And when I die, I won't stay dead , retrieved 2016-08-01
  5. ↑ "And when I Die, I Won't Stay Dead. Bob Kaufman, Poet | Viennale". www.viennale.at. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  6. ↑ "And When I Die, I Won't Stay Dead by Billy Woodberry - Harvard Film Archive". hcl.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  7. ↑ "Art Doc of the Week | And When I Die, I Won't Stay Dead - CraveOnline". 2016-01-08. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  8. ↑ "'And When I Die, I Won't Stay Dead': Film Review" . Retrieved 2016-08-01.


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