Arts and Social Sciences Journal

Karveh EJ

Publications

• Short Communication
  Signifyin(g): Ancestral Roots and Black Vernacular in August Wilson's Seven Guitars
  Author(s): Karveh EJKarveh EJ
  
  As of all African-American literature, August Wilson's century cycle plays are of significance concerning African- American vernacular. After emancipation, the continued subordination of Blacks represented as an inferior race was justified by the denigration of central characteristics of Black identity such as language. The double-consciousness of the African-American, as mentioned by W.E. DuBois, has brought about differences not only in the social lives of the African-Americans but also in their use of the English language. Seven Guitars is a play in which the interactions between the characters and their language is particularly noticeable. Among the well-known scholars in the field of African-American Literature, Henry Louis Gates is celebrated for his in-depth research concerning African-American Literature, specifically its origins and ancestral connections. Gates posits that th.. Read More»
  

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