Contemporary African American Theater: Afrocentricity in the works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller

College Literature, Winter 1999 by Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi

It is noteworthy that Anadolu-Okur does bring to our attention what the author considers to be non-Afrocentric aspects of some of the plays under discussion: for instance, Clay's brutal murder of Lula in The Dutchman or Walker's failure to construct an Afrocentric perspective in The Slave. Similarly, some of the disagreements between these authors, whether personal or ideological, (for instance Neal/Baraka [4041], Baraka/Fuller [132, 138]) are raised in the discussion of Afrocentricity as critical method.

A similar critique or self-analysis of Afrocentricity as ideology and movement would have been valuable to the study.