Research Article

IDENTITY CONFUSION IN DOROTHY WEST’S THE LIVING IS EASY

Number: 28 October 30, 2024
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IDENTITY CONFUSION IN DOROTHY WEST’S THE LIVING IS EASY

Abstract

Literature is a media for conveying the authors’ ideas and feelings to the payers, or it is a mean of relief for them to bare their souls. In this context, literature involves an enormous place in human life. In this regard, African American literature has an important place in American literature and culture. It is also one of the strongest pillars of the literature produced by black writers in the United States of America. African American literature goes and continues in the course of history as oral literature from generation to generation. Since African Americans’ place changes gradually in the USA- due to racism in particular- their viewpoint of literature changes, too. African American history predates the foundation of the United States of America as an independent country, so their literature has deep roots, consisting of rich oral culture in poetry, including gospel music, blues, rap, and spirituals along with written poetry, and slave narrations. Although African Americans come from slave ancestors, they have been able to leave a deep effect on the literature of the United States when they are brought to the continent of America. African American literature is mainly based on autobiographical spiritual narratives, and before the American Civil War African Americans’ literature consists of memoirs of people who escape from slavery. So, African American literature has witnessed the problem of racial discrimination in its existential aspect. But in the progress of time, black writers go deep into verbal literature and perform their own experiences. Dorothy West, in her novel Living is Easy criticizes the blacks who mimes the whites. When we scrutinize, it is possible to penetrate that the writer wants to reflect her own experiences via narration and criticizes her own past. Writing is a kind of purgation for West since she writes about herself. In this study, we aim to point out the impulses that foster Dorothy West’s narration from a Freudian point of view.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

British and Irish Language, Literature and Culture

Journal Section

Research Article

Early Pub Date

October 27, 2024

Publication Date

October 30, 2024

Submission Date

May 16, 2024

Acceptance Date

October 7, 2024

Published in Issue

Year 2024 Number: 28

APA
Akar, M. (2024). IDENTITY CONFUSION IN DOROTHY WEST’S THE LIVING IS EASY. Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 28, 480-489. https://doi.org/10.29029/busbed.1485004
AMA
1.Akar M. IDENTITY CONFUSION IN DOROTHY WEST’S THE LIVING IS EASY. Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. 2024;(28):480-489. doi:10.29029/busbed.1485004
Chicago
Akar, Mahmut. 2024. “IDENTITY CONFUSION IN DOROTHY WEST’S THE LIVING IS EASY”. Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, nos. 28: 480-89. https://doi.org/10.29029/busbed.1485004.
EndNote
Akar M (October 1, 2024) IDENTITY CONFUSION IN DOROTHY WEST’S THE LIVING IS EASY. Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 28 480–489.
IEEE
[1]M. Akar, “IDENTITY CONFUSION IN DOROTHY WEST’S THE LIVING IS EASY”, Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, no. 28, pp. 480–489, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.29029/busbed.1485004.
ISNAD
Akar, Mahmut. “IDENTITY CONFUSION IN DOROTHY WEST’S THE LIVING IS EASY”. Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. 28 (October 1, 2024): 480-489. https://doi.org/10.29029/busbed.1485004.
JAMA
1.Akar M. IDENTITY CONFUSION IN DOROTHY WEST’S THE LIVING IS EASY. Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. 2024;:480–489.
MLA
Akar, Mahmut. “IDENTITY CONFUSION IN DOROTHY WEST’S THE LIVING IS EASY”. Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, no. 28, Oct. 2024, pp. 480-9, doi:10.29029/busbed.1485004.
Vancouver
1.Mahmut Akar. IDENTITY CONFUSION IN DOROTHY WEST’S THE LIVING IS EASY. Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. 2024 Oct. 1;(28):480-9. doi:10.29029/busbed.1485004