Violent Black Man and the Myth of Black Macho in Eugene O’Neill’s “The Dreamy Kid”
The aim of this article is the investigation of the extent to which Eugene O’Neill, in his drama The Dreamy Kid, (re)constructs, or employs, the black macho myth, which negatively images black men as marginalized and violent. This undertaking questions O’Neill’s self-proclaimed progressive racial at...
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| Language: | English |
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Vilnius University
2014-10-01
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| Series: | Respectus Philologicus |
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| Online Access: | http://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/respectus-philologicus/article/view/13754 |