From Apology to Protest: The Black American Novel

accept action American apologetic aspects attempts Baldwin basically becomes Bigger brother Brown characters concentrates concerned continued deals death decides depicts discovers discrimination dominant effects effort environment escape eventually existence experience exploitation face fact fear feels fiction fight finally finds forced freedom friends ghetto girl give Harlem human identity illustrates indicates individual invisible involved John killed lives major manner means merely militant murder Native Negro novelists objective oppression organized period person plantation popular position prejudice presents pressures primarily problems produced protagonist protest novel psychological race racial racism realizes rebel refuses representative respect responsible result reveal role sense sexual situation social society South story Street stresses Tell tends theme Thomas tion tradition tries turns victim violence white society wife woman Wright writers York young youth