윌리엄 포크너 소설에 나타나는 흑인 인권의 문제: 『팔월의 빛』을 중심으로
The Problem of African-Americans’ Human Rights in William Faulkner’s Novel: Focused on Light in August
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The intent of this essay is to illuminate the problem of African-Americans’ human rights in the history of the U.S. on the basis of one of the distinguished novels Light in August by William Faulkner. In Light in August the protagonist Joe Christmas was lynched and castrated by white racist chauvinists who contained and differentiated the Afro-Americans and people of miscegenation to secure their pure whiteness. As exemplified by the castration of Joe Christmas with vague identity and miscegenation in Light in August black males were vulnerable to private lynch and dehumanization by the white racial extremists. They practiced atrocious violence which put black people to death by eliminating any chance of a crack in the pure white males’ dominant society through purgation of every drop of black blood. The proper human rights of Afro-Americans were crushed by the white owners of plantations in the South, even during and after the emancipation declaration for the purpose of exploiting black people by the white dominating class. The white supremacists also sexually exploited black women with false propaganda which black female allured the white men and they had contagious lust for white males. The white extremists with political power ambushed their schemes to nullify the civil rights of African-Americans to levy 2 dollars of the tax poll as well as the Grandfather Clause letting naive black people give up their suffrage and confront the hopeless swamp of racial discrimination and suppression.
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The intent of this essay is to illuminate the problem of African-Americans’ human rights in the history of the U.S. on the basis of one of the distinguished novels Light in August by William Faulkner. In Light in August the protagonist Joe Christmas was lynched and castrated by white racist chauvinists who contained and differentiated the Afro-Americans and people of miscegenation to secure their pure whiteness. As exemplified by the castration of Joe Christmas with vague identity and miscegenation in Light in August black males were vulnerable to private lynch and dehumanization by the white racial extremists. They practiced atrocious violence which put black people to death by eliminating any chance of a crack in the pure white males’ dominant society through purgation of every drop of black blood. The proper human rights of Afro-Americans were crushed by the white owners of plantations in the South, even during and after the emancipation declaration for the purpose of exploiting black people by the white dominating class. The white supremacists also sexually exploited black women with false propaganda which black female allured the white men and they had contagious lust for white males. The white extremists with political power ambushed their schemes to nullify the civil rights of African-Americans to levy 2 dollars of the tax poll as well as the Grandfather Clause letting naive black people give up their suffrage and confront the hopeless swamp of racial discrimination and suppression.
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