Blackness and Role Assignment

Blackness has continued to grow in meaning such that its meaning can be described as ambiguous. A black person in a racist environment is a sulbalternized person whose identity is defined by another; a person denied of self. This imposed or constructed definition of blackness leads to stereotyping and role assignment. This work examines what blackness means to the characters and the consequent role assignment as contained in Andrea Levy's Fruit of the Lemon and Small Island.

About the author

Chidiebube Precious Nwoke is an English and Literature instructor at Konigin Des Friedens College Enugu, Enugu State. she is interested in women and gender studies, Caribbean literature and African studies.

Product details

• Authors: Chidiebube Precious Nwoke
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.09.2018
• EAN: 9783659746017
• ISBN: 978-3-659-74601-7
• No. of pages: 76
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies