Amiri Baraka

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*Principal Works

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PLAYS

A Good Girl Is Hard to Find 1958

"Dante" 1961; also produced as "The Eighth Ditch" 1964

"The Baptism" 1964

"Dutchman" 1964

"The Slave" 1964

"The Toilet" 1964

"Experimental Death Unit #1" 1965

"J-E-L-L-O" 1965

A Black Mass 1966

"The Death of Malcolm X" 1966

"Arm Yourself or Harm Yourself: A One-Act Play: A

Message of Self-Defense to Black Men" 1967

"Great Goodness of Life (A Coon Show)" 1967

"Madheart: A Morality Play" 1967

"Slave Ship: A Historical Pageant" 1967

"Home on the Range" 1968

Police 1968

Four Black Revolutionary Plays: All Praises to the Black man 1969

"Resurrection in Life" 1969

Bloodrites 1970

Junkies Are Full of Shhh… 1970

Columbia The Gem of The Ocean 1973

A Recent Killing 1973

The New Ark's A-Moverin 1974

The Sidnee Poet Heroical or If in Danger of Suit, The Kid Poet Heroical 1975

s-1 1976

The Motion of History 1977

The Motion of History and Other Plays 1978

Selected Plays and Prose of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (dramas and prose) 1979

"The Sidnee Poet Heroical: In 29 Scenes" 1979

"What Was The Relationship of the Lone Ranger to the Means of Production: A Play in One Act" 1979

Dim'Crackr Party Convention 1980

Boy & Tarzan Appear In A Clearing! 1981

Money: A Jazz Opera 1982

"Song: a One Act Play about the Relationship of Art to Real Life" 1983

OTHER MAJOR WORKS

Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note… (poetry) 1961

Cuba Libre (essay) 1961

Blues People: Negro Music in White America (essay) 1963

The Dead Lecturer: Poems (poetry) 1964

"The Revolutionary Theatre" (essay) 1965; published in periodical Liberator

The System of Dante's Hell (novel) 1965

Home: Social Essays (essays) 1966

Black Art (poetry) 1967

Black Music (essay) 1967

Tales (short stories) 1967

Black Magic: Sabotage, Target Study, Black Art; Collected Poetry, 1961-1967 (poetry) 1969

Black Spring (screenplay) 1968

In Our Terribleness (Some Elements and Meaning in Black Style) (poetry) 1970

It's Nation Time (poetry) 1970

A Fable (screenplay) 1971

Raise, Race, Rays, Raze: Essays since 1965 (essays) 1971

Strategy and Tactics of a Pan-African Nationalist Party (essay) 1971

Supercoon (screenplay) 1971

Kawaida Studies: The New Nationalism (essay) 1972

Spirit Reach (poetry) 1972

Afrikan Revolution (poetry) 1973

Crisis in Boston! (essay) 1974

Hard Facts: Excerpts (poetry) 1975

Three Books by Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones): The System of Dante's Hell, Tales, The Dead Lecturer (novel, short stories, and poetry) 1975

AM/TRAK (poetry) 1979

Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (poetry) 1979

"Afro-American Literature and Class Struggle" (essay) 1980; published in periodical Black American Literature Forum

"Confessions of a Former Anti-Semite" (essay) 1980; published in periodical Village Voice In the Tradition: For Black Arthur Blythe (poetry) 1980

Reggae or Not! (poetry) 1981

In the Tradition (poetry) 1982

"Sounding" (poetry) 1982; published in journal Black American Literature Forum

The Descent of Charlie Fuller into Pulitzerland and the Need for Afro-American Institutions (essay) 1983

The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones (autobiography) 1984

Daggers and Javelins: Essays, 1974-1979 (essays) 1984

"Wailers" (poetry) 1985; published in periodical Callaloo

"Why;s/Wise" (poetry) 1985; published in periodicalSouthern Review

The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues (essay) 1987

"Reflections" (poetry) 1988; published in periodical Black Scholar

*Works before 1967 were published under the name LeRoi Jones.

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