ANN PETRY AND ETHNICITY AND RACISM IN AMERICAN NOVEL Cover Image

ANN PETRY VE AMERİKAN ROMANINDA ETNİSİTE VE IRKÇILIK
ANN PETRY AND ETHNICITY AND RACISM IN AMERICAN NOVEL

Author(s): Önder Çakirtaş
Subject(s): Evaluation research, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Theory of Literature, American Literature
Published by: Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
Keywords: Ann Petry; Ethnicity; Slave; Racism;

Summary/Abstract: This paper, through the novel of Black woman novelist Ann Petry, aims to clarify the social and psychological impacts of the period in which the Blacks were pointed as a target for racist discriminations. In this study, we tried to show the survival of a black heroine against all the injustices and tortures towards her and her portrayal in respect with psycho-social perspectives together with the partiality of Ann Petry as a black person. Ann Petry tries to display the identity problem in American community by portraying a character who is a victim of racist behaviors just because of her skin color.

  • Issue Year: 2/2012
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 87-92
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Turkish