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Volume 16:9 September 2016
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Racial Tensions in Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman

B. Suganya, M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil.


Abstract

African American literature focuses on the role of African American within the larger American society and what it means to be an American. It explores the issues of freedom and equality long denied to blacks in the United States, along with further themes such as African American culture, racism, religion, slavery and diaspora. The survival of the Blackman in America, is predicated upon his ability to keep his thoughts and his true identity hidden. Many African- American writers have explored this metaphor of double-consciousness. This paper focuses on racial tensions depicted in Amiri Baraka’s novel Dutchman. The Metaphor of Double Consciousness and Amiri Baraka are discussed.

Keywords: Racial tension, Black Man, Amiri Baraka, Dutchman, the Metaphor of Double Consciousness and Amiri Baraka.

Amiri Baraka (LeRoy Jones)

Amiri Baraka (LeRoy Jones), a contemporary playwright, poet, essayist, novelist and critic has explored it extensively. He uses his writings to explore the experience and anger of the African American people against racism and advocates socialism to reverse the political power structure that ends the age-old suffering of his community- the black people. Double consciousness in his work emerges as a kind of masochism, for his attraction to both black and white culture is laced with pain. The life of African American had always been relentlessly unreal and their problems remain unsolved. This concept is reflected in his plays. He also reflects violence and social tensions of race relations in contemporary America through his plays.

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B. Suganya, M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil.
Research Scholar
Sri Sarada College for Women (Autonomous)
Salem 636 016
Tamilnadu
India
bsuganya3@gmail.com
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