Volume 18, No. 6, 2021

Historical Trauma And Cultural Dislocation In Leon Forrest’s The Bloodworth Orphans


Asha P R , Dr. R David Raja Bose , Dr. S. Sunitha

Abstract

Leon Forrest is a prominent African American novelist. His novels deal with emotional and psychological feelings of abandonment and disconnection, particularly the cultural displacement of men in the postcolonial period. These men engage in the struggle to find a way out of no way as they are entangled in the web of slavery and traumatic experiences of the community’s past. The present article attempts to study a few characters from Leon Forrest’s The Bloodworth Orphans, like Rachel, Regal Pettibone, La Donna, Nathaniel, and Abraham Dolphin, the cultural dislocation generated by the Great Migration, segregation, and cultural erasure of centuries-long enslavement of the Black people inflicted unimaginable sorrows and misery.


Pages: 10074-10091

Keywords: cultural erasure, segregation, family dislocation, alienation, orphanhood, cultural disconnection.

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