Harris, William J The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka The Jazz Aesthetic, University of Missouri Press, 1985 Finds traces of Jazz elements in Baraka's poetic output.

Lacey, Henry C To Raise, Destroy, and Create: The Poetry, Drama, and Fiction of Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Whitson, 1981.

An explication of many of Baraka' s works as they fit into an assessment of his development as an artist

Nelson, Hugh "LeRoi Jones's Dutchman- A Brief Ride on a Doomed Ship" in Educational Theatre Journal, Vol. 20, March 1968, pp 53-58

This essay describes the source of the Flying Dutchman motif in Baraka's play.

Olaniyan, Tejumola Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance. The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean Drama, Oxford University Press, 1995.

A work of post-colonialist criticism by a leading scholar of African American studies that describes how the expressive and performative nature of drama by Wole...