MERGAND PE LINIA DE DEMARCARE: CONTURAND IDENTITATEA SOCIALA SI RASA IN OPERELE LUI JAMES BALDWIN „GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN” SI „THE FIRE NEXT TIME”
WALKING THE DIVIDING LINE: DELINEATING SOCIAL IDENTITY AND RACE IN JAMES BALDWIN’S GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN AND THE FIRE NEXT TIME

Summary/Abstract: Race understood as a social and ideological construction has been the subject of much debate in American literature and literary theory. The present article endeavors to analyze James Baldwin’s “Go Tell It on the Mountain” and “The Fire Next Time” by focusing on the concept of race as a cultural and social construction provided by an American history shaped by slavery, segregation and on-going racial discord and incongruity.

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