black radicalism

Question one

Various authors have written about black radicalism and provided various perspectives about African-Americans. The interest in this area is because of the historical injustices leveled against this group of citizens in USA. In this article, the idea of black radicalism is clearly manifest. In this book, Richard recounts a story of a black Americans who kills a young white lady out of panic. The man named Blogger is an African Americans and he is the one who engages in this murder. The reason that compels this man to engage in murder is because of the feeling of hopelessness, racial prejudices and the effects of social conditions. Being a black Bigger is hopelessness as he believes that he cannot make it is live. He believes in doing low paying jobs in society because of he fact that he is not educated and that he is a black. This kind of live causes him to leave in despair. Bigger is also much annoyed with the racial prejudices perpetrated by the whites. Bigger hates the whites by virtue of how they treat the African Americans. The social conditions that Bigger is brought in is also cited as one of the reasons as to why he engages in such m murders. The social conditions are very harsh marred with cases of discrimination from the white counterpart. Therefore, these are the factors that makes Bigger an African American to feel elevated even after carrying out murder. There is a feeling of victory instead of sorrow after the murder of Mary. Despite these killings and murder, the problem is yet to be solved in an amicable way. The fact that the white people discriminate the blacks is not recommendable. Realizing that all of them regardless of their color of skin are human being and deserve better treatment. An example of what we discussed about these ideas is that, human beings are social animals and require better treatment. If they feel recognized and appreciated, they tend to live well with others and the fight for dominant becomes less extensive.

Question two

Different authors used different stylistic devices in their writing to support their representation of characters as well as ensure that their themes come out clearly. One of the authors that use these stylistic devices is Morrison in her novel, “The Bluest Eye”. The two among many stylistic devices she uses to support representations of the characters include; use of fragmented narrative with many perspectives and use of third person narration. In the novel the author alternate from the first to third person narration. For instance, he used Claudia a nine-year-old girl to give the novel a feeling of innocence. This helps to indicates how some of the people that were discriminated against their race were innocent. Therefore, Claudia is used to represent innocence. Likewise, Morrison also uses third person narration omniscient to help give the novel a sense of time and peace. She wants to demonstrate that the problem of racism is not emanating from today but it has existed for quite sometime. Therefore, she provides a history of Breedlove storefront and stories about the Soaphead church white ancestors making the readers to appreciate those racial issues are still affecting characters in the 20^th century.

Shange in “For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf style” also uses different stylistic devices. She uses narratives to convey her message through the characters. She also used chorepoem. The girls performing the poems are dressed in rainbow colors. Another stylistic device is symbolism. Rainbow is used to refer to the costumes worn by the ladies. Therefore, through the ladies and the poems they recite, we get to understand the sufferings and the life they are facing. This also helps to exemplify the African American cultures.

Question three

African literature has developed over the years. The major themes that most African delves on much are on racism, slavery, and equality. The pieces of their literature further incorporates various aspects includes art, music and spiritual matters. Regardless of the strides made by African American writers, their work receives a lot of critic. One of the representations of African Americans is about their own experiences as blacks. This representation is usually criticized as narrow in scope. Most of the African American writers included women and they acted as the defenders of their people through their various pieces of literature (Lee 12). The fact that the African Americans have hard a challenging past they should not delve much on their past but try to focus on other areas central to their lives Live is changing and the culture of the people is changing. The level of racial discrimination and inequality that was experienced many years back has been reduced or eliminated.

Another representation of the African American culture is aimed at creating rifts between the blacks and the whites. The poetry during this age was inclined on the themes that agitated for the liberation of the African Americans. It was more like protest poetry aimed at pointing out the problems that blacks faced (Camille 21). Most of the literature mostly focus on the blacks and sometimes it went to an extend of wanting to balkanize the people. It fails to provide a wide perspective about the America people be it blacks and whites but it segments people on certain attributes something thought to be not good in uniting the people and creating harmony.

The last representation is the way the black people are showcased. Many of the critics of this literature are fellow African-Americans and they critique the literature for showcasing blacks in a negative perspective. African American literature was constricted to the stories about the participation of the Africans in various industry such as whaling and there role in abolitionist movements (Patricia and Fredrick 21). Blacks believe that even if they had gone through the challenges they should not be represented as inferior or second-class. Furthermore, African American writers delve much on the culture of the blacks, which have been already overtaken by events.

Conclusion

There are mixed views from various people about African-American literatures. Some of the people support them on various aspects while other criticizes them on concentrating much on representation of African Americans. Nevertheless, even though these criticisms do exist, these writers have helped to bring to the limelight the history and the cultures of African Americans.

Works Cited

Camille Dungy. Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, US: University of Georgia Press, 2009. Print.

Lee Valerie. The Prentice Hall anthology of African American women’s literature, US; Pearson/Prentice Hall. 2006. Print.

Patricia, Mckissack, and Fredrick, Mckissack. Black Hands White Sails: The Story of African- American Whalers, US; Scholastic Incorporated, 1999. Print.

Toni, Morrison. “The Bluest Eye”.

Shange, Ntozake. “For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf style

Wright Richard. Native son. US, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005. Print.