لغة كلام
Volume 11, Numéro 3, Pages 89-102
2025-09-30
The Metaphors Of Racial Denigration And The Politics Of African American Otherness In Eugene O’neill’s All God’s Chillun Got Wings
Authors : Gandouz Olfa .
Abstract
The present paper examines the metaphors of displacement and to the racial denigration of African American characters in Eugene O’Neill’s All God’s Chillun Got Wings (1924). It studies the role of imperial forces in generating metaphors of marginality against the African American characters in the play. External otherness is explicitly manifested through the conflictual relationship between the black husband and the white wife. Jim Harris is disillusioned with the American dream of racial equality and he goes through moments of inner strife. His dramatic situation stems from his inner otherness and the warring ideas of love and his own dignity. To better understand the notion of otherness, the theoretical framework will delve into Frantz Fanon’s postcolonial reading of the myth of black otherness. A Postcolonial Approach to African American displacement will be deployed to understand the intricacies of the African American self. In the same context, in his significant book, Black Skin, White masks, Fanon gives insights into the role of the imperial machine in heightening the otherness of African American citizens and in shaping the unconscious metaphors of racial denigration. The innovative aspect of this part lies in dealing with an eclectic study and in approaching O’Neill’s text from a postcolonial perspective. The second part of the paper offers a textual analysis of the play under study. The different types of the otherness of the African American characters will be analyzed to study the way O’Neill deconstructs the myth of black otherness and marginality. Postcolonial traces, Expressionistic dimensions, thematic, and theatrical devices will be explored to map out the African American longing for belonging and their success at subverting the different forms of otherness.
Keywords
Otherness ; Metaphors of Marginality, Self-denigration, Oppressor vs oppressed, African American Identity
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