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• Title: Aesthetic Modes in Afro-American Fiction: Alice Walker and Ralph Ellison
• Author : Kola
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,Professional & Technical,Education,Language Arts & Disciplines,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 62 KB

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Several Afro-American writers such as Phyllis Wheatley, Countee Cullen and W. E. B. Dubois depicted Africa in several of their works. Most of them were influenced by the religious and sociopolitical ideologies of their time in portraying Africa negatively in their writings. In Countee Cullen's "Heritage," for example, an ambivalent tone permeates all the verses. Phyllis Wheatley was more dogmatic. In "the University of Cambridge," she acknowledges her indebtedness to her European masters for rescuing her from African pagan gods. Despite the negative portrayals of the continent and its culture in the earlier works, two major contemporary Afro-American writers--Alice Walker and Ralph Ellison have depicted Africa positively in their works and also used motifs from the culture very effectively. In this study, I wish to substantiate the thesis that in some of her poems, "Diary of an African Nun," and The Color Purple, Alice Walker presents more positive portraits of African cultures than most of her predecessors. I will also indicate that there are interesting parallels between the oral historian or griot in African societies and some contemporary Afro-American writers such as Ralph Ellison. I submit that Ellison is an oral historian of Afro-American culture. Most of his works especially Invisible Man and the "Hickman Stories" exemplify his role as a custodian of Afro-American culture.

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