Volume : V, Issue : VIII, August - 2015

RACISM,IDENTITY CRISIS AND COMPULSION TO SPEAK: EMERGENCE OF AFRO–AMERICAN WRITERS

Dr. Ousephachan K. V.

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The Blacks in America who had been suffering racial discrimination for more than four hundred years were legally free from the middle of the nineteenth century. But this period had so many ‘ands’, ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ that one cannot accept it as freedom at all. One has to see it as legal fiction .The Blacks in America have been exploited and oppressed racially, culturally, socially, economically and politically. Their culture has been ruined, their languages have been extinguished and they have been ruthlessly confined to subhuman conditions of life for about four centuries. They were completely stripped off their heritage and history, all on account of racial difference.In course of time, many Black writers emerged to defend their race, protest against racial discrimination and glorify their culture and tradition.

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Dr. Ousephachan K.V. Racism,Identity Crisis and Compulsion to Speak: Emergence of Afro-American Writers Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 8 August 2015

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