Imamu Amiri Baraka, Dutchman

Jimmy Fazzino (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Ed. by Christopher Hugh Gair, University of Glasgow
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.5: African American Writing and Culture of the United States.
Vol. editors: Philathia Bolton (University of Akron), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), A Yemisi Jimoh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1964

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Play

Resources

Amiri Baraka [LeRoi Jones]’s 1964 play Dutchman put the twenty-nine-year-old writer on the map. It is, in the words of critic Werner Sollors, “Baraka’s most familiar as well as his most intensely analyzed and highly praised play” and “synonymous with Baraka’s fame as a ‘protest writer’ in the 1960s” (Sollors 1978: 117). Baraka had already been a fixture on the Greenwich Village beat and bohemian scene since the late 1950s, when he and his first wife, Hettie Cohen, founded Totem Press and the magazine Yugen, important outlets for beat and New York School writing. Baraka’s own work had been included in Donald Allen’s influential 1960 anthology The New American Poetry, and the following year he …

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Citation: Fazzino, Jimmy. "Dutchman". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 September 2011 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5474, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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