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Love in the Times of Hatred: Miscegenation in The Known World by Edward P. Jones and Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Abstract
Interracial marriages have been considered taboo for North America from the very beginning. It would be appropriate to look
for the origins of this issue in the causes of the Black Lives Matter protests being held these days. Blacks have been exploited by
whites in every period of history. Their lands have been occupied and rich underground and aboveground resources have been
made available to the white Europeans. Europeans, who were not content with this, sold them to rich landowners like property
and killed them with all kinds of torture. The status of blacks, which whites see through the window of slavery and mastership,
was not different from animals. Therefore, unification between the two races was seen as a sin. Although this sin was tried to be
prevented by violent punishment so as to keep the purity of the white race, sexual intercourse continued between the two races.
Prohibitions to prevent racial mixing continued to exist unbelievably until the middle of the second half of the 20th century.
Especially in literature produced by African-American writers, it is possible to see that love relations between races are
frequently studied. In this study, a comparative analysis of the characters of different races in the Pulitzer winner The Known
World by Edward P. Jones and National Book Award winner Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward will be done in the context
of miscegenation.
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Kaynakça
- Bennett, L. (1993). Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America (6th ed.). Penguin. Bercaw, N. (2013). Slavery and Emancipation. In T. C. Holt & L. B. Green (Eds.), The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Volume 24: Race (pp. 218–224). University of North Carolina Press.
- Cuddon, J. A. (2013). A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (5th ed.). Penguin Books. Edelstein, T. G. (2009). Miscegenation. In N. Bercaw & T. Ownby (Eds.), The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Volume 13: Gender (pp. 184–187). University of North Carolina Press.
- Fremon, D. K. (2000). The Jim Crow Laws and Racism in American History. Enslow.
- Gallay, A. (2006). Colonial Slavery. In C. R. Wilson (Ed.), The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Volume 3: History (pp. 247–250). University of North Carolina Press.
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- Jones, E. P. (2003). The Known World. Harper Collins.
Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Dil Çalışmaları (Diğer)
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
30 Eylül 2020
Gönderilme Tarihi
15 Ağustos 2020
Kabul Tarihi
25 Eylül 2020
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2020 Cilt: 8 Sayı: 3
APA
Üney, M., & Tanrıtanır, B. C. (2020). Love in the Times of Hatred: Miscegenation in The Known World by Edward P. Jones and Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward. International Journal of Languages’ Education and Teaching, 8(3), 249-265. https://doi.org/10.29228/ijlet.45828
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