Amiri Baraka is a leading author, theorist and social activist in contemporary America, with a far-reaching influence upon African American literature and American popular culture since the mid-20 th century. This paper presents a survey of Baraka＇s literary career and major works, and demonstrates Baraka＇s literary thoughts with an exploration to the＂changing same＂behind his shifts from Beat poet to Black Nationalist to Marxist-Leninist-Third Worldist and then to culturalist—his view of literature serving...
