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  • Chapter 7 - Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts Movement

  • Edited by Harvey Young, Boston University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre
    Published online:
    08 June 2023
    Print publication:
    22 June 2023, pp 138-156

  • Summary

    Aimee Zygmonski provides a close reading of Amiri Baraka’s play Dutchman followed by a study of the creation of his Black Arts Repertory Theatre to provide an insider perspective into the development of the Black Arts Movement. Her study of Baraka’s racial and political awakening as represented in the increasing self-awareness of his character Clay allows her to identify emergent themes that would eventually inform “the Movement.” Although the Black Arts Movement did not last long, Zygmonski asserts that the awakened consciousness that resulted from this flurry of activity “reverberate[s]” in the works of more contemporary and present-day artists.

  • Chapter 7 - Little Magazines and Subterranean Networks

  • from Part III - The Beatnik Era and the Profusion of Beat Literature (1958–1962)
  • Steven Belletto, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    The Beats
    Published online:
    20 February 2020
    Print publication:
    12 March 2020, pp 159-191

  • Summary

    This chapter offers an in-depth look at three important Beat little magazines: Yugen, Beatitude, and The Floating Bear, as well as a discussion of Big Table. It explains how these magazines fostered subterranean networks that promoted and expanded the Beat sensibility in literature and culture. It also offers in-depth discussions of the poetry of Bob Kaufman.