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Approaches to Teaching Baraka’s Dutchman
by Gerald L. Early

    Publication Date: May 01, 2018
    List Price: $40.00
    Format: Hardcover
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9781603293549
    Imprint: The Modern Language Association of America
    Publisher: The Modern Language Association of America
    Parent Company: American Council of Learned Societies

    Hardcover Description:

    First performed in 1964, Amiri Baraka’s play about a charged encounter between a black man and a white woman still has the power to shock. The play, steeped in the racial issues of its time, continues to speak to racial violence and inequality today.This volume offers strategies for guiding students through this short but challenging text. Part 1, "Materials," provides resources for biographical information, critical and literary backgrounds, and the play’s early production history. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," address viewing and staging Dutchman theatrically in class. They help instructors ground the play artistically in the black arts movement, the beat generation, the theater of the absurd, pop music, and the blues. Background on civil rights, black power movements, the history of slavery, and Jim Crow laws helps contextualize the play politically and historically.



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