Black Voices: The Noble Savage Between Resistance and Assimilation

Zusatztext

This book is a collection of four essays which deal with the black dilemma: whether to resist enslavement, colonialism and the stereotypical image of the noble savage and stick to the black identity; or to assimilate in the colonialist culture. The first essay Do Things Fall Apart? A Reconsideration of the Racist Concept of the Noble Savage Through a True Representation of the Savagery of the Noble was published as part of the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on British and American Studies. Romania: Suceava University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Language and Literature, 2004. The second Roscoe C. Jamison: A Voice Unheard was published in fikr Wa Ibda, Cairo, 2011. The third African-Americans/ Affrilachians Suffering Mirrored: How do Nikky Finneys Red Velvet and Left Capture events from the Past in order to Reshape the Present? was published in Fikr Wa Ibda and is accepted for publication in Cairo Studies in a forthcoming volume, Cairo. The fourth The Metaphor of Assimilation in Rabéarivelo's Poetry was published in CLCWEB: Comparative Literature and Culture, Purdu University, 2009.

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Dr.Yasser Aman,associate Professor,University of Dammam,KSA,is author of many papers and seven books:The Evolution of Jazz and Blues; Modern Arabic Studies; Body Representation and Gender Reformulation; Langston Hughes & Countee Cullen; Essays on Modern Poetry & Criticism; A Reading in the Poetry of The Afro-German May Ayim and Translation Theories

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