Clay And The Construction Of Black Masculinity In Amiri Barakas Dutchman

Author : Carmen Odimba
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656957193
Total Pages : 25 pages
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Download or read book Clay and the Construction of Black Masculinity in Amiri Baraka's "Dutchman" written by Carmen Odimba and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (American Studies), course: Seminar „Recent Developments in American Theater”, language: English, abstract: The 1950s and 1960s are one of the most exciting chapters of African American history, politically and artistically. They bore a profusion of new ideas. While leaders like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X proposed radically opposed solutions to the problems of black people’s rights, writers and intellectuals handled the Harlem Renaissance’s heritage and music saw the hard blues from the earliest part of the century gain in popularity. It is in this period, in 1957, that Amiri Baraka – still LeRoi Jones at the time – moved to New York’s Greenwich Village and became part of the Beat Movement. He then founded the literary magazine Yugen with his wife and obtained his first critical acclaim as a poet for Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note... published in 1961. In 1960, he went to Cuba. This visit changed his life. He became aware of the relationship between politics and arts and decided to incorporate his political, social and spiritual beliefs in his writing, using poetry and drama as means to educate. Baraka’s transitional period would give birth namely to Dutchman, a controversial play which premiered in 1964. The audiences were especially shocked by the political allusion to the Genesis. Baraka also transposed his own evolution in Clay: the movement from docile, assimilated and insignificant black man to proud revolutionary and marginal poet telling out loud his truth to the white institution.

Author : Carmen Odimba
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Download or read book Clay and the Construction of Black Masculinity in Amiri Baraka's Dutchman written by Carmen Odimba and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (American Studies), course: Seminar "Recent Developments in American Theater", language: English, abstract: The 1950s and 1960s are one of the most exciting chapters of African American history, politically and artistically. They bore a profusion of new ideas. While leaders like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X proposed radically opposed solutions to the problems of black people's rights, writers and intellectuals handled the Harlem Renaissance's heritage and music saw the hard blues from the earliest part of the century gain in popularity. It is in this period, in 1957, that Amiri Baraka - still LeRoi Jones at the time - moved to New York's Greenwich Village and became part of the Beat Movement. He then founded the literary magazine Yugen with his wife and obtained his first critical acclaim as a poet for Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note... published in 1961. In 1960, he went to Cuba. This visit changed his life. He became aware of the relationship between politics and arts and decided to incorporate his political, social and spiritual beliefs in his writing, using poetry and drama as means to educate. Baraka's transitional period would give birth namely to Dutchman, a controversial play which premiered in 1964. The audiences were especially shocked by the political allusion to the Genesis. Baraka also transposed his own evolution in Clay: the movement from docile, assimilated and insignificant black man to proud revolutionary and marginal poet telling out loud his truth to the white institution.

Author : Roland Joseph Jackson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
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Download or read book Acknowledgement-resolution-pursuance written by Roland Joseph Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : LaToya Jefferson-James
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793615306
Total Pages : 233 pages
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Download or read book Masculinity Under Construction written by LaToya Jefferson-James and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masculinity Under Construction: Literary Re-Presentations of Black Masculinity in the African Diaspora analyzes Black male identity as constructed by Black male authors. In each chapter, Dr. Jefferson-James discusses a different "construction" or definition of masculine identity produced by men of African descent on the continent of Africa, in the Caribbean, and in North America. Combing through the works of James Baldwin, Chinua Achebe, Ralph Ellison, George Lamming, and other pan-African authors, Masculinity Under Construction argues for the importance of analyzing the historical context that contributed to the formation of Black male identity. Additionally, Dr. Jefferson-James draws a relationship between Black feminists and writers, such as Anna Julia Cooper and her contemporaries, and these works of literature viewed as primarily about Black masculinity.

Author : Harry Justin Elam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195127256
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African-American Performance and Theater History written by Harry Justin Elam and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theater, and performance in America.

Author : Amiri Baraka
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Dutchman written by Amiri Baraka and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issued to promote the 1967 adaptation to film of Baraka/LeRoy Jones's play , based on his screenplay, directed by Anthony Harvey, and starring Shirley Knight and Al Freeman. For their performances, Knight and Freeman were nominated for awards at the Venice Film Fetival; Knight won. This pressbook inludes sample press copy, credits, and examples of the promotional paper

Author : Kathryn Kristyna Stevenson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
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Download or read book Scarlet Equations written by Kathryn Kristyna Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Olga Barrios Herrero
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 8437083982
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Theatre Movement in the United States and in South America written by Olga Barrios Herrero and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El creixement dels moviments sociopolítics entre els anys seixanta i noranta als Estats Units i a Sud-àfrica va establir els ferms fonaments sobre els quals, amb una força i ímpetu sense precedents, es va forjar el teatre negre d'aquests anys. Forma i contingut van sorgir a l'una del compromís polític i artístic adoptat per aquests artistes contra l'imperialisme, el colonialisme i el racisme occidentals. Per primera vegada en la història, el teatre negre dels Estats Units i de Sud-àfrica analitzava i valorava les arrels negres per a poder il·luminar la recerca d'un futur de llibertat. No obstant això, el context sociopolític i les circumstàncies específiques de cada país han generat igualment els trets distintius del teatre afronord-americà i negre sud-africà (incloses les diferències de gènere) manifestos en ramificacions artístiques totalment heterogènies i úniques.

Author : Olga Barrios
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 8437070228
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Theatre Movement in the United States and in South Africa written by Olga Barrios and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2008 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El creixement dels moviments sociopolítics entre els anys seixanta i noranta als Estats Units i a Sud-àfrica va establir els ferms fonaments sobre els quals, amb una força i ímpetu sense precedents, es va forjar el teatre negre d?aquests anys. Forma i contingut van sorgir a l?una del compromís polític i artístic adoptat per aquests artistes contra l?imperialisme, el colonialisme i el racisme occidentals. Per primera vegada en la història, el teatre negre dels Estats Units i de Sud-àfrica analitzava i valorava les arrels negres per a poder il·luminar la recerca d?un futur de llibertat. No obstant això, el context sociopolític i les circumstàncies específiques de cada país han generat igualment els trets distintius del teatre afronord-americà i negre sud-africà (incloses les diferències de gènere) manifestos en ramificacions artístiques totalment heterogènies i úniques.

Author : Werner Sollors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
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Download or read book Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones written by Werner Sollors and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: