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YING Chun
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2022.11.005
Southwest University, Chongqing, China
The issue of race is the focus of Oates’ novel Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart. The racial identity metaphors in the photos in the novels show the characteristics of racial ideology. This paper argues that photographs are no longer used as external cultural metaphors, but as invisible references to racial prejudice and racial contradictions. This article re-examines Oates’ racial issue writing in the form of visual narratives and considers the ambivalence of the dual identities and double consciousness of blacks in New York City in the late 1950s from the visual ethical interpretation of black identity awareness, and the perception of cruelty and violence of social inequality. The historical limitations of the harsh reality of racism make a critical intervention in visual ethics.
racial identity, visual narrative, double consciousness
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, November 2022, Vol. 12, No. 11, 1119-1126
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