Evolution or revolution in black theater: a look at the cultural nationalist agenda in select plays by Amiri Baraka. From: African American Review | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: Shannon, Sandra G. | COPYRIGHT 2003 African American Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

... we are on the verge of reclaiming and reexamining the purpose and pillars of our art and laying out new directions for its expansion. As such we make a target for cultural imperialists who seek to empower and propagate their ideas about the world as the only valid ideas, and see blacks as woefully deficient not only in arts and letters but in the abundant gifts of humanity. (August Wilson 71)

From a 1990's perspective, one might initially suspect that the nationalist...

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