Oct 6, 2008
The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka | The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka
At a glance:
- Author: Everett LeRoi Jones
- First Published: 1984
- Time of Work: 1934–1974
- Setting: Newark, New Jersey; Washington, D.C.; Illinois; Puerto Rico;
and New York City
- Principal Characters: LeRoi Jones, LeRoi’s father, LeRoi’s Grandmother, Steve Korrett, Allen Ginsberg, Nellie Kohn, Sylvia Wilson, Ron Karena
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: African Americans, Social action, Self-discovery, Politics, Racism, Race, Autobiography, Poetry or poets, Drama or dramatists
- Locales: New York, NY, Washington, D.C., Newark, NJ, Illinois, Puerto Rico
Form and Content
In his early roles as poet, dramatist, radical organizer, and
spokesperson for African-American causes, LeRoi Jones’s public,
outspoken, and sometimes fiery side provided many opportunities to be
misunderstood. Surely that was the impetus for Jones, who changed his
name to Amiri Baraka, to write The Autobiography of LeRoi
Jones/Amiri Baraka, a detailed account of the first forty years
of his life. Baraka shows the connections between diverse personal and
public worlds in nine chapters. The first eight chapters segment
significant stages in Baraka’s...
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