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The Slavishness in the Blood: Black People’s Compromise in Richard Wright’s Native Son
PU Chen
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2021.09.005
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
The slave trade has exerted an enormous influence on the black people especially who live in America so that this phenomenon has generated many great African American writers whose subject matter is always about the racial discrimination. Richard Wright, as one of the celebrated African American writers, creates an unprecedented image, Bigger, in his work Native Son, which has aroused many scholars’ research. With the help of detailed analysis of the text, this essay aims to explore and study why most of the black people in this book especially Bigger subconsciously grovel and lower themselves, that is its characters’ innate inferiority and their slavishness in the blood when they are facing with the white.
Richard Wright, Native Son, slavishness in the blood
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