LE SILENCE, L’ECRITURE ET L’AFRICAIN AMERICAIN : UNE LECTURE INTERTEXTUELLE DE A LESSON BEFORE DYING D’ERNEST GAINES ET THE COLOR PURPLE D’ALICE WALKER
Publication Date : 01-06-2021
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This paper plans to discuss issues related to binary opposition between literacy and silence in the frame of African American history. For more than four hundred (400) years, Blacks have been looking forward to assert their humanity in front of serious challenges. Basically, Blacks are metaphorically associated with animals through various concepts ranging from “pigs’ to “monkey” and “mule.” This de-humanization process paves the way to underrate black slaves in their treatment by White. The master/slave-relationship also reinforced in one way or another such prejudice. The quest for self-assertion is encapsulated in the search for freedom and justice through the move from silence to speaking, and from silence to writing.
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