Titre :	Milkman’s American Identity in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Nousseiba Tebbani, Auteur ; Hadda Slimani, Directeur de thèse
Editeur :	CONSTANTINE [ALGERIE] : Université Frères Mentouri Constantine
Année de publication :	2020
Importance :	84 f.
Format :	30cm.
Note générale :	Une copie electronique PDF disponible au BUC.
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Catégories :	Lettres et Langues Etrangères:Langue Anglaise
Tags :	Song of Solomon  Milkman  African-American  American identity  hyphenated identity  double-consciousness  American Creed  incorporationism  mask  masquerade.
Index. décimale :	420 Langue anglaise
Résumé :	“African-American” is a label that was attributed to former African slaves in the USA after they gained freedom and started claiming their rights as American citizens and is still used today. As this hyphenated name suggests, those newly freed slaves wanted to integrate their African heritage into their American citizenship, but the name also alludes to a doubled identity that lives inside each one calling him/herself an African-American, one is African and the other is American. They are Africans by heritage, but what makes them Americans is the centre concern of this study. The components of American identity are therefore investigated through the view of political philosophy and then are traced in the life of Milkman, the protagonist in Toni Morrison’s 1977 novel Song of Solomon. The result of this projection determines his identity and draws conclusions on the accuracy of the label African-American as an identifying label to the black community in America. Milkman, in the first part of the novel, was an American by means of American creed. He was favoured by the rights that the people of his race were denied. However, his Americanism was fake and superficial because he only enjoyed those rights as a result of imitating the lifestyle of the white American, which masked his blackness. He also did not respect any of the American values that an authentic American is supposed to adopt. It was only in the second part of the book when he went on a journey to South that he learned those values, and he was able to learn and adopt them only when he let his ethnic culture emerged into his American one. Therefore, he proved his authentic Americanism and the adequacy of Schildkraut’s view on incorporationism as an essential component of the American identity.
Diplome :	Master 2
Permalink :	https://bu.umc.edu.dz/master/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13855

Milkman’s American Identity in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon [texte imprimé] / Nousseiba Tebbani, Auteur ; Hadda Slimani, Directeur de thèse . - CONSTANTINE [ALGERIE] : Université Frères Mentouri Constantine, 2020 . - 84 f. ; 30cm.
Une copie electronique PDF disponible au BUC.
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Catégories :	Lettres et Langues Etrangères:Langue Anglaise
Tags :	Song of Solomon  Milkman  African-American  American identity  hyphenated identity  double-consciousness  American Creed  incorporationism  mask  masquerade.
Index. décimale :	420 Langue anglaise
Résumé :	“African-American” is a label that was attributed to former African slaves in the USA after they gained freedom and started claiming their rights as American citizens and is still used today. As this hyphenated name suggests, those newly freed slaves wanted to integrate their African heritage into their American citizenship, but the name also alludes to a doubled identity that lives inside each one calling him/herself an African-American, one is African and the other is American. They are Africans by heritage, but what makes them Americans is the centre concern of this study. The components of American identity are therefore investigated through the view of political philosophy and then are traced in the life of Milkman, the protagonist in Toni Morrison’s 1977 novel Song of Solomon. The result of this projection determines his identity and draws conclusions on the accuracy of the label African-American as an identifying label to the black community in America. Milkman, in the first part of the novel, was an American by means of American creed. He was favoured by the rights that the people of his race were denied. However, his Americanism was fake and superficial because he only enjoyed those rights as a result of imitating the lifestyle of the white American, which masked his blackness. He also did not respect any of the American values that an authentic American is supposed to adopt. It was only in the second part of the book when he went on a journey to South that he learned those values, and he was able to learn and adopt them only when he let his ethnic culture emerged into his American one. Therefore, he proved his authentic Americanism and the adequacy of Schildkraut’s view on incorporationism as an essential component of the American identity.
Diplome :	Master 2
Permalink :	https://bu.umc.edu.dz/master/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13855