SOURCE: "Lost Illusions, New Visions: Imamu Amiri Baraka's 'Dutchman,'" in The Curtain and the Veil: Strategies in Black Drama, Burt Franklin & Co., 1981, pp. 147-76.
In the following excerpt, Keyssar argues that Baraka has portrayed the main characters of "Dutchman" realistically, not just symbolically, thereby intensifying their effect on the audience.
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