Drame Amirija Barake kot instrumenti za prebuditev črnskega naroda v Združenih državah Amerike

Kleindienst, Ajda (author), Hajdini, Simon (mentor), Širca, Alen Albin (mentor)

Diplomsko delo obravnava črnski nacionalizem in dramska dela pesnika ter dramatika Amirija Barake, rojenega Everett LeRoi Jones. Delo kritično pretehta trditev, da črnska skupnost v Združenih državah Amerike tvori samostojno entiteto, o kateri se je v krogih črnskih nacionalistov govorilo tudi kot o samostojnem narodu. Trditvam, da črnci v Ameriki tvorijo samostojen narod, so nasprotovali predvsem marksistični misleci, vendar je tudi Komunistična stranka v dvajsetih letih oblikovala stališče, da imajo črnci kot narod v Ameriki pravico do samoodločbe. Črnski nacionalisti, predvsem kulturni nacionalisti, so trdili, da črnce v Ameriki povezuje skupna izkušnja suženjstva in da imajo kot taki svojo kulturo, na podlagi katere lahko govorimo o črncih kot o samostojnem narodu. Eden izmed najpomembnejših črnskih nacionalistov v šestdesetih letih 20. stoletja je bil Amiri Baraka, ki je spadal v strujo kulturnih nacionalistov. S svojimi dramskimi deli, s katerimi je med drugim želel angažirati črnsko občinstvo k politični akciji, je poskušal pomagati izoblikovati kulturo črncev in jih navdihniti k povezovanju. Amiri Baraka je zagovarjal idejo o črnski umetnosti, ki se mora od umetnosti belcev razlikovati po tem, da ni apolitična in da pomaga pri oblikovanju skupnosti.

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: afroameriška umetnost, črnski nacionalizem, kulturna identiteta, politično gledališče, Amiri Baraka
• Work type: Bachelor thesis/paper
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Year: 2023
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-151414
• COBISS.SI-ID: 167752963
• Publication date in RUL: 05.10.2023

KLEINDIENST, Ajda, 2023, Drame Amirija Barake kot instrumenti za prebuditev črnskega naroda v Združenih državah Amerike [online]. Bachelor’s thesis. [Accessed 5 April 2025]. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=151414

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: Amiri Baraka's Plays as Instruments for the Awakening of the Black Nation in the United States of America

Abstract

The following work examines black nationalism and the dramatic works of the poet and playwright Amiri Baraka, born Everett LeRoi Jones. The work critically examines the claim that the black community in the United States forms an independent entity, which was also referred to as an independent nation. Claims that black people in America form an independent nation were opposed mainly by Marxist thinkers, but the Communist Party in the 1920s formed the position that black people as a nation in America have the right to self-determination. Black nationalists, especially cultural nationalists, argued that black people in America were united by the common experience of slavery and that as such they had their own culture, on the basis of which we could speak of black people as an independent nation. One of the most important black nationalists in the 1960s was Amiri Baraka, who belonged to the stream of cultural nationalists. With his dramatic works, which, among other things wanted to engage black audiences in political action, he tried to help shape black culture and inspire black people to unite. Amiri Baraka advocated the idea of black art, which must be distinguished from white art in that it is not apolitical and that it helps build community.

• Keywords: African-American art, black nationalism, cultural identity, political theatre, Amiri Baraka