Papers by Ghanim Samarrai
Journal of Tikrit University for the Humanities, 2010
Some Critics complain that American literature has done a poor job of accurately depicting blacks... more Some Critics complain that American literature has done a poor job of accurately depicting blacks and that an authentic portrait presenting the black man as a free American citizen has not yet been painted. In the main, these complaints draw upon the notion that early and modern American fiction confined the images of African Americans to stereotypically limited depictions, exemplified as primitive characters that needed the protection of the 'benevolent' whites they served. Black authors had found that obtaining access to correct narrative representation was not simple: to turn the field into a viable space for black representation would require genuine social changes that many whites were unwilling to make. A dramatic change took place, nevertheless. On the 15 of September, 1963, racially motivated bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham killed four black girls, and this incident generated an unprecedented literary response from black writers, who star...
Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, 2014
Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, 2014
Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, 2014
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Papers by Ghanim Samarrai