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Resisting Cultural Hegemony In Wright’s Selected Texts Through Identity Revival
ISSN: 2617 - 0299
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Resisting Cultural Hegemony In Wright’s Selected Texts Through Identity Revival
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Publisher: International Journal Of Linguistics, Literature And Trans..
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Abstract
This study aims to show that the Black African transformative resistance in literature has remained a powerful strategy that helped their literature survive. The study used Bill Ashcroft views to illustrate the process of White hegemony over Blacks. Then, to illustrate each text in the light of the postcolonial theory in order to shed light on how the chosen writer gave evidence to the ongoing hegemony in his texts. The final stage used Bill’s theory to talk about the resistance and anti- hegemony literature of the chosen writer. A lot of studies have been conducted on Black African American Literature but very little dealt with transformative resistance particularly in Richard Wright. This writer grew in immigrant family in America which represents a challenge to him since he faces the dilemma of abandoning his cultural identity through white hegemony into the mainstream dominant American culture and he is often known for promoting...
