Migration and Blackness in James McBride’s The Color of Water (1996) and Bessie Head’s The Cardinals (1995)
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2015
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Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
This research examines the issue of migration and blackness in James McBride’s The Color
of Water (1996) and Bessie Head’s The Cardinals (1992). By drawing the affinities between
the two works, we intended to argue that the experience of racism is similarly lived by the
African Americans and the South African Blacks. To achieve our purpose, we relied on the
theoretical guidelines of Stephen Steinberg’s theory on racism as it is developed in America
Again at the Crossroads (2000). The study revealed that the two societies have maintained a
policy of land exclusion that resulted in both economic and social exclusion. The two works
explore in a similar way the movement of the blacks from their restricted areas to the
considered Promised Land of the white man’s cities in search for freedom and their struggle
for assimilation in two racist societies that associate Blackness with criminality and
inferiority.
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57p.;30cm.(+cd)
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Arts dramatiques et lettres Anglaises