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 International Journal of English Literature and Culture
 

International Journal of English Literature and Culture

Vol. 6(1), pp. 7-12, February, 2018

 ISSN: 2360-7831

DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2017.054

 

Review paper

 

The Complicated Interfaces of Symbolism and Myth in Dutchman

 

Saddik Gohar

 

UAE University

 

Accepted 22 November 2017

Abstract

 

Approaching Dutchman as either a symbolic or a religious allegory, critics have given little attention to the play's revolutionary dimensions and its ethno-political motifs which were integral to LeRoi Jones' evolving black aesthetics in the sixties. This presentation will discuss the religious and symbolic motifs of the play and link them with its socio­political background as well as the racial conflict between whites and blacks in America. It will also clarify the revolutionary themes of Dutchman which brought about the evolution of Jones' black aesthetics of resistance in the sixties. Moreover, the paper will analyze Jones' anti-white and anti-middle class Negro attitudes as reflected in Dutchman in order to locate the play within the black literature of resistance.

 

Key Words: Racism; myth; negro; conflict; symbolism; violence; middle-class; integration.

Cite This Article As: Gohar S (2018). The Complicated Interfaces of Symbolism and Myth in Dutchman. Inter.  J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 6(1): 7-12

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