Amiri Baraka/Le Roi Jones: The Quest for a "Populist Modernism"

For anyone looking for a critical introduction to Amiri Baraka's (born Leroi Jones) work, this is an excellent place to begin. Soller's offers a detailed overview, written in straightforward prose, of the intellectual and cultural milieu from which Baraka's writing emerged. In doing so, he also provides a terrific introduction to literary and political culture from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s. Werner Sollors is a professor of Afro-American studies at Harvard. He was born in Germany and lives in the United States since 1978. He has been studying and writing about the history of American interracial relationships since 1986.