https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman racial conflict and strange encounter en-us 2022-03-17 22:49:42 UTC 2022-05-03 11:59:01 UTC hello@padlet.com snyt1 https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2100887287 any question or concern about the skit project and final paper or other things related to the course at this point?]]> 2022-03-17 22:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2100887287 snyt1 https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2100890594 Do you find any elements here in his background relevant to the play Dutchman?]]> 2022-03-17 22:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2100890594 snyt1 https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2100894294 Consider Baraka’s play Dutchman (or imagine a play) which is produced in a theatre with a special community in mind as the intended audience (such as all women for instance), what do you think is the main advantage and the main disadvantage in such a case. Discuss. ]]> 2022-03-17 23:04:00 UTC https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2100894294 snyt1 https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2100898120 Think for a moment if you can associate Clay and Lula as some sort of a variation of The Zoo Story. For instance, which character can be said to be “awakened” by the other? How do you justify this?]]> 2022-03-17 23:09:46 UTC https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2100898120 snyt1 https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2100899418 can you try to either locate an adjective (or two) in the play or use your language which aptly describes Clay?
Then, the same question for Lula.]]> 2022-03-17 23:11:40 UTC https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2100899418 snyt1 https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2100916867 Just for fun (but potentially this can work as a final paper topic), try to elaborate how exactly the train serves as a metaphor in this play.

]]> 2022-03-17 23:34:35 UTC https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2100916867 snyt1 https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2100917479 as you can see in an image on one of the slides today, all characters except Clay wear or carry white masks. What does it say to you?]]> 2022-03-17 23:35:18 UTC https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2100917479 snyt1 https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2100923810 What does this language tell you about Lula? Do you detect a special pattern or manner of speaking in Lula’s lines or in Clay’s?

]]> 2022-03-17 23:42:46 UTC https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2100923810 snyt1 https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2100928289 A) Through Clay’s awareness, “Baraka seeks to educate the white-dominant society to the feelings and situations of the collective Black man” (Shirley Anne Williams)
(B) Dutchman “challenges the whole proposition of integration. The question which he is asking is ‘integration into what?’ [Answer:] Western rationalism, ‘the great intellectual legacy of the white man. (C.W.E. Bigsby)
 (C) “Up to the time of the outburst, the boy has been winning every round anyway, and it just won’t do to suddenly cast him as the representative of the exploited telling off his exploiters.” (Edith Oliver)
Question: Pick one quotation from above and (i) elaborate how you understand it, and (ii) respond to it: do you agree with what it says? Does it inspire you to reinterpret the play from a different angle? 

]]> 2022-03-17 23:46:02 UTC https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2100928289 snyt1 https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2101153758 Select one essay from the three samples (available only via Moodle) and perform any of the following 3 tasks:

Try to give the writer a grade based on our rubrics (please bear in mind that although the nature of these papers are similar to what is required for our final paper, they are not written as a 2500-3000 word paper).
Write a short note to justify your grade, a comment on the quality of this paper, or a critical response to it.]]> 2022-03-18 02:16:43 UTC https://padlet.com/snyt1/Dutchman/wish/2101153758