Racial Inequality in Alan Paton’s Cry the Beloved Country (1948) and James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son (1955)
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Date
2023
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Mouloud Mammeri University
Abstract
This research paper is a comparative study of Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) written by the South African writer Alan Paton and Notes of a Native Son (1955) written by the Afro-American writer James Baldwin. It deals with racial inequalities in these two works, we intended to argue that the Black race in both South Africa and America experience unequal treatments with the whites in various spheres. To achieve our purpose, we relied on the theoretical guidelines of Eugene P. Dvorin’s The Theory of Apartheid: National Racial Policy in the Union of South Africa (1951) and Stephen Steinberg’s theory Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy (1995). The first chapter delves into the exclusion of the blacks from the social sphere, the study revealed that the South African and the American societies have maintained a policy of social rejection and established scientific justification for the inferiority of the blacks. The second chapter analysis the psychological effects of discrimination causing mental disorder. This extended research concludes with the third chapter that deals with the economic exploitation of the black labor. The black South Africans and African Americans suffered from segregation, regardless of being a majority or a minority. The two works explore in a similar way the suffering of the black race under systemic racism and their struggle for racial equality
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58p. ; 30cm(+CD-Rom)
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Racial inequality, White domination, Blacks’ exclusion, Economic exploitation, Discrimination
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Literature and Interdisciplinary Approaches