Slave Ship | Themes
Black Nationalism
Slave Ship was first produced during Baraka's literary and political phase of black nationalist sentiment. The play expresses a black nationalist perspective through the interlocking thematic concerns of African-American history, African-American community, and African-American identity. A strong sense of African-American communal identity is expressed through the play's representation of the seminal experience of African Americans—the ‘‘Middle Passage’’ to America via ‘‘slave ships,’’ enforced accommodation to the oppressive conditions of...
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