The Intricate eternal pride of African-American
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2016
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university of Oum El Bouaghi
Abstract
African-American literature has emerged amazingly in the last few decades. It is the body of literature produced by American writers of African descent. Self writing has been the salvation for writers to present their problems. This dissertation examined the existence of the Intricate Eternal Pride of African Americans in the comparative study between the autobiographies of Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk, and the Autobiography ofMalcolm X by Alex Haley. This work is chosen to investigate and apply the existence of the theories of the ''veil'' and ''double consciousness''. African-American in their self writing did not face the oppressor but they create methods such as education and separatismto create their
entity.
This study used these theories as methods to analyze or argue that there are measurable
changes and a noticeable shift in the social and psychological attitudes of the black from
(19th to 20th century).
The aim behind this study is to explore the solution in black writing that they project for an
interracial society that would finally overcome the persistent legacy of African-Americans.
The major question raised in this work was as the following: why did black become an
object of intensified racial oppression? What does the race of time have to do with the time
of race? Would it be conceivable for someone to see as black everything that we see as
white and vice versa? Also the study argued that Islam has provided the solution for these
many identities of African-American community thrive to their self determination without
the corporation of the other races.
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American community, Black Folk, Afrique : communauté