IMAGO Interculturalité et Didactique
Volume 22, Numéro 2, Pages 85-97
2024-01-31

The Black American Spirit, The Birth Of A Literature And Identity

Authors : Taleb Wafaa .

Abstract

For blacks, Slavery was a regime of sorrow, degradation, and perpetual frustration. Nevertheless, the enslaved Africans retained their self-respect, fragments of their ancestral culture, and memories of their origins, and achieved some measure of fulfillment even in their bonds. Their essential victory is demonstrated by their written works that portrayed their personality, their suffering, and their fight for dignity. This paper is concerned with the Afro-American literature regarded as the most vital tool for the Afro-Americans to react, through centuries, against Slavery and later against racial segregation

Keywords

African-Americans ; African Literature ; Segregation ; Slavery