Veil: A Wall of Segregation
Moving behind the confines of the race has been the continuous efforts of African-Americans so as to reveal and confirm their true humanity and abilities to white race as well as their own race. African-Americans, Dubois posited, are shut out of the white America, inhabiting behind a vast veil whi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Lasting Impressions Press
2015-08-01
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| Series: | International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://eltsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/5-3-3-15.pdf |
| Summary: | Moving behind the confines of the race has been the continuous efforts of African-Americans so as to reveal
and confirm their true humanity and abilities to white race as well as their own race. African-Americans,
Dubois posited, are shut out of the white America, inhabiting behind a vast veil which creates a deep division
between the races. Veil is made of the fabric of racism interwoven thread by thread and imposed by white
world. It is thrown discourteously and forcibly to the African-Americans whom their distorted images are
imposed on them and their true humanity and identity are hidden behind the veil. This study overtakes to
present how Loraine Hansberry, in her first and the most outstanding drama, A Raisin in the Sun examines
the world within the veil. She demonstrated that Duboisian metaphoric veil is operating in the racist
American society so that not only African-Americans are segregated physically and psychologically from
the rest of the world but also are inflicted with obscurity of vision that are neither able to see themselves
clearly nor be seen truly. On the other hand, it presents how the veil provides blacks with the second sight to
observe and comprehend the racist nature of whites which is hidden and incomprehensible for them. |
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| ISSN: | 2308-5460 2308-5460 |