ALICE CHILDRESS’ PERCEPTION OF MISCEGENATION IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN DRAMA

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English department Faculty of Arts Aswan university

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This paper will illustrate how people respond to interracial relations and how the miscegenation phenomenon affects women in American society. The growing American Civil Rights Movement made a powerful impression on Black writers during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. It was a very critical era in the 20th century where the Civil Rights Era spans from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s, and it was a time of social, political, cultural, and economic change in South Africa and the United States. The Civil Rights time was a period that witnessed the rise of female black writers. Alice Childress' plays are vital reflections of the struggle of African Americans during that period. Every play presents a story of struggle using a modern type that mimics the human needs for achieving better- life aspirations. Childress' plays presented miscegenation, interracial hostilities, and prejudice in a dramatic form. She used the issues of black women and their struggles in American society to vindicate the black identity. Miscegenation is one of the oldest American literary themes and the purpose of this paper is to introduce important critical ideas that much related to this theme such as gender, poverty, love, the struggle of black women, violence, and racial relationships.

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