Redefining Identity: A New Historicist Approach in The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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2018-03
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Faculty of Art in English
Abstract
The advocacy for equality and unique identity is provoked in people of margin
since the time of their consciousness towards equality and freedom. In The
Autobiography of Malcolm X also, Malcolm X represents the voice of repressed for
distinct identity basing on their historical significance, capacity, skill and strength of
performance. There are several factors like social, political and economic to
dominate the minority group people. In order to reflect the real sense of such people's
identity these factors should be taken in grant in order to redefine the identity and
perception towards such dominated people. In order to trace such aspect New
Historicist thinkers like Michael Foucault, Aram Vesser and Stephen Greenblatt form
the theoretical surrounding of this research. This research depicts even Black people
have capacity and confidence to form their own identity even in adverse environment,
if they are not misrepresented and unidentified in the society
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New Historicism, Advocacy, Marginal