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Dutchman (1964) by Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) A Modern Myth of Assimilation Dream Deferred What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
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- Shakespeare Festival in Central Park and Amiri Baraka's Dutchman, published and performed for the first. Enacted in Dutchman were also distinctly perceptible in Vaughn's Othello. According to Baraka's introduction. Refused, with the statement that the editors could not understand it” (4). After then being similarly rejected.
- Dutchman Amiri Baraka 1964 CHARACTERS CLAY, twenty‐year‐old Negro LULA, thirty‐year‐old white woman RIDERS.
The mastery of form A Theoretical Approach to Black Drama The History of Black Drama consists of innovative (infinite?) deformative (nation based discursive strategies of masking and sounding) discursive strategies that are always mixtures of the mastery of form and the deformation of mastery Houston Bakeresque The deformation of mastery Full Speed After Daytona The History of Black Drama: What We’ve Seen and Done so Far. Why does Houston Baker turn to the concepts of the mastery of form and the deformation of mastery I want to suggest that a compete expressive modernity was achieved only when the “Harlem Renaissance” gave way to what might be called—following the practices of Anglo-American and British Moderns—’renaisancism.’ By this term I mean to suggest a spirit of nationalistic engagement that begins with intellectuals, artists, and spokespersons at the turn of the century and receives extensive definition and expression during the 1920’s. This sprirt is one that prompts black artist’s awareness that his or her only possible foundation for authentic and modern expressivity resides in the discursive field marked by formal master and sounding deformation. Further I want to suggest that “Renaissancism”connotes something quite removed from a single, exotic set of failed high jinks confined to less than a decade. It signals in fact a resonantly and continuously productive set of tactics, strategies, and syllables that takes its form at the turn of the century and extends to our own day.” Houston Baker Then do European principles and aesthetics apply to theatre written by African-Americans of modernity? Why or Why not?
ANSWER-DEPENDS ON WHO’S the F#CK iIS APPLYING THEM! Does the treatise composed at Golden Pond hold water? Why and Why not? (Can African American Theatre in your estimation, so far, be defined by a concrete set of definable aesthetics different from those of Anglo-American theater? ANSWER: YES AND NO BECAUSE IT’S TAXANOMIC-BUT!
It will always be retrospective and, for many, restrictive. Do revolutionaries like give a flying-mutha-f.ck about rules?
QUESTION: What makes these revolutionaries uniquely different from “American,” French, Soviet, and/or Chinese Revolutionaries? The History of Black Drama consists of innovative (infinite?) deformative (nation based discursive strategies of masking and sounding) discursive strategies that are always mixtures of the mastery of form and the deformation of mastery The “History so Far” of Black Drama in the 20th century (geographically, movement-wise, and with respect to author) Slave-ship Performance Plantation Performance and Ritual, Minstrelsy, The Pulpit Space (Escape. By William Wells Brown), Proscenium Performance (The Black minstrel Show, In Dahomey, by Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Black-Realism to Black Modernism?
(Depends)- Mulatto to A Raisin in the Sun by Langston Hughes and Lorraine Hansberry. Any verlapping themes?: black nationalism, black internationalism, double consciousness with respect to the actor’s paradox, a hyper-Burden of representativity and what else?
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MARXISM, MASKING, CODING, COMMUNING “Sellout” Damas I feel ridiculous/ in their shoes/ their dinner jackets/ their starched shirts/ and detachable collars/ their monocles and/ their bowler hats. I feel ridiculous/ among them/ like an accomplice/ among them/ like a pimp/ like a murdere ramong them/ my hands hideously red/ with the blood of their/ ci-vi-li-za-tion The Dissemination of the Polemics of Negritude in English Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth transl.
Constance Farrington (1963 translation of the 1961 book: New York, Grove) The Black Arts Movement and The Black Power Movement “Black is Beautiful” The Black Arts Movement can be said to be the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. This movement, in line with the Civil Rights Movement of which it is a part, sought to transform the way African-Americans were treated and defined in the U.S. African American writers and artists, a vital sector of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, sought o transform the manner in which black Americans were portrayed in literature and the arts. In accord with their definition of themselves as participants in a movement, African American writers turned to the African American masses for their inspiration and defined their goals in broadly collective social and political terms. Their objective was to create works that would be—in the words of Maulana Karanaga—”functional, collective, and committing.” Hence, the Black Arts of the 1960s proposed to create politically engaged expression as corollary to the new black spirit of the decade. The writer Larry Neale described the project as follows: The Black Arts Movement is radically opposed to any concept of the artist that alienates him from his community.
Black Art is the aesthetic and spiritual sister of the Black Power concept. As such, it envisions an art that speaks directly to the aspirations and needs of Black America. The Black Arts and the Black power concept both relate broadly to the Afro-American’s desire for self determination and nationhood.
Both concepts are nationalistic. Our aim is nothing less than the destruction of double-conciousness. Black Art Leroi Jones and The poem of B.A.M.
Points Does this poem conform to formal norms? Where do you turn when you can’t get out of the Bubbule? Viceral Disparity between Destruction Creation-Can destruction of an old world create a new one? How do we get to the ending? Larry Neal Defines the B.A.M. Project To align the projects of the black artist and political activist To fashion a collective goal: the destruction of double consciousness Dutchman A Modern Myth of Black Assimilation Major Themes Race and Racism: Assimilation, Self-hatred Violence and Cruelty: The violence of white oppression that murders blacks in a literal and figurative sense.
Passivity: A by-product of assimilation that, for Baraka, makes a community stagnant, incapable of producing leaders or innovators.
Dutchman Written by Characters Clay Lula Riders of Coach Young Negro Conductor Date premiered March, 1964 Place premiered (, ) Original language English Dutchman is a play written by African-American playwright, then known as LeRoi Jones. Dutchman was first presented at the in, on March 1964.
The play, which won an. Was made into, starring and Dutchman was the last play produced by Baraka under his birth name, LeRoi Jones. At the time, he was in the process of divorcing his Jewish wife, and embracing. Dutchman may be described as a political allegory depicting black and white relations during the time Baraka wrote it. The play was revived in 2007 at the Cherry Lane Theatre starring, and in 2013 was restaged by at the Russian and Turkish Baths in the.
Plot The action focuses almost exclusively on Lula, a white woman, and Clay, a black man, who both ride the subway in. Clay's name is symbolic of the malleability of black identity and black manhood.
It is also symbolic of integrationist and assimilationist ideologies within the contemporary. Lula boards the train eating an apple, an allusion to the Biblical Eve. The characters engage in a long, flirtatious conversation throughout the train ride. Lula sits down next to Clay.
She accuses him of staring at her buttocks. She ignores his denials and uses stereotypes to correctly guess where he lives, where he is going, what Clay's friend, Warren, looks and talks like. Lula guesses that Clay tried to get his own sister to have sex with him when he was 10. Clay is shocked by her apparent knowledge of his past and says that she must be a friend of Warren. Lula is glad that Clay is so easy to manipulate and puts her hand on his leg. She feeds him apples.
She tells Clay to invite her out to the party he is going to. At this point, it is unclear whether Clay is really going to a party, but he tells her he really is. Lula vaguely alludes to having sex with Clay at her 'apartment' after the 'party'.
We don't know if these are real or conveniently made-up by Lula. Clay is gladdened by Lula's apparent liking for him and maintains a hopeful attitude to having sex together. However, he does not push his hope onto her and waits for Lula to make the offer first. Lula is angered by Clay's not falling for her tactics. She switches strategies and mocks Clay's Anglo-American speech, his college education and his three-button suit. She derides his being black and passive.
She dances mockingly in an R&B style and tells Clay to join her and 'do the nasty. Rub bellies'. Clay, who does not respond initially, eventually grabs her and throws her down. Clay accuses Lula of knowing nothing but 'luxury'. He slaps her twice and tells her to leave him alone.
Clay launches into a monologue. Clay suggests that whites let black people dance 'black' dances and make 'black' music.
He explains that these segregatory actions assuage black Americans' anger towards whites and distracts them from accessing the 'white man's intellectual legacy'. Clay states that if black people stopped trying to heal their pain through dance, music, civic participation, religion, or focusing on moving upwards in American society, and became coldly rational like white people, black people would just kill all the whites and be done with racism in America. Clay says that if he were to take Lula's words to heart, he should just kill all the white people he meets. Although Clay says all this, he deeply rejects this plan of action.
He states that he does not want to kill and that he prefers to be ignorant of the problem. He says he would rather choose to pretend to be ignorant of racism, not try to get rid of it by fighting with whites. Once Clay makes his confession, Lula changes strategies again. Clay makes as if to leave, but Lula coolly, rationally, stabs him twice to the heart. She directs all the other passengers, blacks and whites, in the train car to throw his body out and get out at the next stop. The play ends with Lula looking towards another young black man who has just boarded the now mostly empty train car. The elderly black train conductor steps into the compartment and tips Lula his hat.
Characters. Clay: is a 20-year-old, middle-class black man. He is college educated, and well dressed. Clay is extremely calm and well-mannered, although he finally reaches is breaking point by the end of the play. It is thought that Clay’s character is both real and symbolic. Symbolizing the real struggle of a black man.
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Lula: is a 30-year-old white woman. She is tall, slender, and has long red hair. She is described in the play as loud lipstick, bright, and skimpy summer clothes, with sandals, and sunglasses. Like Clay, Lula is also symbolic, she symbolizes 'White America'. Throughout the play, Lula continues to seduce and taunt Clay. Riders of Coach: are white and black.
Although they do not play an important role until the end of the play, they are witnesses to Clay's rant, and his murder. Young Negro: is about 20 years old. He is described to have a couple of books under his arm. It is suggested at the end of the play that he is Lula’s next victim. Conductor: is portrayed as a happy spirited man, mumbling a song to himself, and swaying down the aisle to a song in his head. He does not appear until the end of play.
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