Redefining Identity: A New Historicist Approach in The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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