The Analysis and the Historical Background of...

The Analysis and the Historical Background of African American Literature

Author Name : Nalli Raju

ABSTRACT

The present Paper encompasses the analysis and the historical background of African American Literature. The African-American literary tradition implies the culture and tradition of suppressed people. The suppressed and oppressed people of African American race and society are placed in the literary writings of the writers. The writers exhibit the plights and pathos of the people with their artistic and creative expressions in the form of plays, poems, fictions and stories. The creations are well recognized in the intellectual scenario of the world.

The African American writers are socio creative artists. It is an artistic form directly emanated from the collective social situation in which the Afro-American found himself. It is directly connected to the historical, economic, educational and social growth and development of people and as such maintains a unique position in the literature of world. Every black writer is a product and part of black community. When he addresses his audiences, he will be in part expressing the life and needs of their community. The frame of reference to which he relates is his community. They are what they are because of their peculiar nature of the people of the country

Key Words: African American Literature, identity, etc.