Race still remains a significant factor in defining human relationships in the world. It is more so in the United States. Writers of African ancestry living in the U.S. have been expressing what it means to be coloured in America. The articulation of racial has been more powerful in black drama and theatre. This volume is a critical analysis of the Post 1960 African-American Drama: its ethics, aesthetics, politics and ideology with focus on three most prolific and celebrated Black writers: James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka (Le Roi Jones) and Ed Bullins. It traces the evolution of Racial Consciousness in African-American drama from 1950 to the present as well as the progression of consciousness within each playwright based on a detailed exegesis of their major plays.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M Dasan
Dr. M. Dasan is currently Professor and UGC Research Awardee in the Department of Studies in English, and Director, Centre for Canadian Studies, Kannur University. Formerly he was the Head of the Department and has relinquished his headship consequent on being selected for UGC postdoctoral research Award. His first book Racial Consciousness in Black American Drama was the subject of this doctoral dissertation. He has also edited Beyond Resistance: Critical Essays on Canadian First Nations Writing, Rethinking Multi-culturalism: Critical Essays on American Literature and Discourses of Discontent: Critical Essays on Commonwealth Literature. He has presented papers in many international seminars held in India and abroad. He has also visited and lectured in various universities in UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Singapore and Malaysia. He has published a number of research papers on a wide variety of topics like Culture, Gender, Human Rights, Environment, Land Rights and Literature. He has contributed considerably to the promotion of Canadian Studies and Research in India. He had also held various academic and administrative posts. He had served as Registrar, Director of College Development Council, Co-ordinator, Post Graduate Diploma in English Communication and Programme Officer, National Service Scheme of University of Calicut and Dean, Faculty of English and Foreign Languages, Syndicate member, Chairman Board of Studies and Board of Examinations and Director of the Thalassery Campus of Kannur University.
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