IMPACT OF RACISM ON IDENTITY AND SOCIAL IN RICHARD WRIGHT?s NATIVE SON AND BLACK BOY.
- Research Scholar (PhD),Department of English, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, AP, India.
- Assistant Professor and Research Director, Department of English, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, AP, India.
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The current article focuses on the investigation of the theme of social and racial identity of the African American characters in the fictional works of Richard Wright?s Native Son (1940) and autobiography Black Boy (1945) created a controversial world shocking the sensibilities of both Black and White America by presenting the cultural and social realities behind racism that has been a matter of question in the United States for centuries. In the social climate characterized by racial conflicts and psychic tension specific to the previously mentioned period, the identity formation process of the Negroes is a highly debatable and a never ending one. Therefore numerous literary exemplifications from Richard Wright?s novels and short stories will be offered, including Wright?s self-referential account that also illustrates the tragedy of an author held captive in a hostile world. Thus, this study aimed to discuss how the racial stereotypical picture held in both groups? mind became destructive and double-edged racism by focusing on racism on identity, social and cultural conflicts of racism in Wright?s Native Son and in Black Boy.
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[Mutaz Tarik Shakir And G.Chenna Reddy (2017); IMPACT OF RACISM ON IDENTITY AND SOCIAL IN RICHARD WRIGHT?s NATIVE SON AND BLACK BOY. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Sep). 342-347] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
Research Scholar (PhD),Department of English, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, AP, India.
