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O’Neill’s Treatment of Racism in All God’s Chillum Got Wings and the Emperor Jones
Asim Karim
Corresponding Author: Asim Karim
Submitted: 2011 April, 21
Accepted: 2011 June, 10
Published: 2011 July, 30 |
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Society and culture of a particular place is governed by certain elements that have substantial impact
on the very personality and behavior of people of that very place. These elements range from such micro ones
as home and family to such macro ones as religious affiliation, ethnic and sectarian belongingness and
economic conditions. The impact of these cultural elements could be substantially meaningful in developing
healthy personality traits or regressive behavioral defects. American literature provides rich study of what could
be the disturbing role of such factor as racial belongingness on personality and behavior. O’Neill treatment of
racial factor did not develop into a set pattern in his long dramatic career and the consensus is that he
predominantly followed stereotypic image of the white/black in American society. This study, however,
evaluates specific impact of racism in personality/behavioral disintegration in All God Chillum Got wings and
The Emperor Jones. Secondly it asserts that the peculiar psychic states as highlighted in All God’s Chillum in
particular match similar states produced in his other plays not concerned with racism. Thus the treatment of
personality regression here is in line with similar states in other plays.
Key words: Culture, human, O’Neill’s Drama, psychoanalysis, , ,
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Asim Karim, . O’Neill’s Treatment of Racism in All God’s Chillum Got Wings and the Emperor Jones. Current Research Journal of Social Sciences, (4): 334-341.
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ISSN (Online): 2041-3246
ISSN (Print): 2041-3238 |
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