Approaches to teaching Baraka's Dutchman / edited by Matthew Calihman and Gerald Early.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Calihman, Matthew, 1971- editor.

Early, Gerald Lyn, editor.

Series:

Approaches to teaching world literature ; 153.

Approaches to Teaching World Literature, 1059-1133 ; 153

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014. Dutchman.

Baraka, Amiri.

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014--Study and teaching.

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014.

Dutchman (Baraka, Amiri).

Study skills.

Physical Description:

xi, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2018.

Summary:

"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. "-- Provided by publisher.

"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the play Dutchman by Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) in college literature, drama, and film courses, including consideration of race, gender, black arts and other literary movements, the blues and popular music, and African American history. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Biographical and Autobiographical Materials p. 3

Book-Length Studies, Edited Collections, and Special Issues p. 3

Early Productions p. 4

Editions p. 14

Other Texts p. 15

Part 2 Approaches

Performing Identities

Teaching Dutchman through Creative Writing p. 26 / Andrew Ade

Dutchman in the Round p. 34 / Jim Cocola

Teaching Dutchman from an International Perspective p. 42 / Katarzyna Jakubiak

Dutchman Heaped in Modern Cinema p. 51 / William Thomas McBride

Dramatic Histories

Dutchman in the Drama Class p. 63 / Meenakshi Ponnuswami

Baraka's Aesthetic Radicalism: Dutchman's Modernist Roots p. 71 / Daniel Morris

Breaking from the Beats: Teaching Dutchman as a Critique of Bohemianism p. 77 / Kurt Hemmer

Dutchman as Black Avant-Garde Historical Drama p. 84 / Matthew Calihman

Culture and Violence in Dutchman and the Black Arts Movement p. 91 / Deborah M. Mix

What's Love Got to Do with It? Everything! Teaching Dutchman and "The Revolutionary Theatre" p. 97 / Koritha Mitchell

Cultural Interplays

"Free of Your Own History": Implicating Students in Dutchman p. 106 / Andrew Sargent

Reading Dutchman's Setting p. 114 / Richard Schur

Dutchman, the Black Body, and the Law p. 122 / Danny M. Hoey, Jr.

Dutchman's Uncle Tom p. 127 / Tess Chakkalakal

Dutchman, A Raisin in the Sun, and the History of Minstrel Theater p. 134 / Roland Leander Williams, Jr.

Dutchman and Black Vernacular Culture p. 140 / Jean-Philippe Marcoux

"And That's How the Blues Was Born": Baraka's Dutchman and Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie in Conversation p. 147 / D. Quentin Miller

"No Metaphors," "No Grunts": Dutchman, Black Art, and Authenticity p. 154 / Molly Hiro

Amiri Baraka and Philip Roth: Passing, Place, and Identity p. 161 / James D. Bloom

Teaching Dutchman with Chappelle's Show: Arguments along the Color Line p. 168 / Caleb Corkery.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-202) and index.

ISBN:

9781603293549

160329354X

9781603293556

1603293558

OCLC:

1013828361