El-Tawassol التواصل
Volume 21, Numéro 1, Pages 235-243
2015-03-30
James Baldwin’s Nobody Knows My Name: American Social Discourse Paradoxical Functioning
Authors : Zeghar Dalila .
Abstract
In Nobody Knows My Name, James Baldwin deals with black American identity evolution in a white hegemonic America. Through his experience as a man of colour, writer and art critic, he shows how American western ideal functions through a hegemonic social discourse, a “paradox” based on an interaction between segregation and integration. He shows how the white dominant social discourse crosses socio-economic and cultural spaces with huge consequences on the definition of a Negro, “a nigger”. He is optimistic and develops the inevitable emergence of Afro-American counter discourse which expresses a struggle for survival through African roots, black Arts Renaissance and political activism.
Keywords
Black american identity, hegemonic white american social discourse, american western ideal, paradox, segregation, integration, emergence of an afro- american counter discourse, african roots.
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