Black Voices: The Noble Savage Between Resistance and Assimilation.

      Аннотация: This book is a collection of four essays which deal with the black dilemma: whether to resist enslavement, colonialism and the stereotypical image of the noble savage and stick to the black identity; or to assimilate in the colonialist culture. The first essay “Do Things Fall Apart? A Reconsideration of the Racist Concept of the Noble Savage Through a True Representation of the Savagery of the Noble” was published as part of the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on British and American Studies. Romania: Suceava University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Language and Literature, 2004. The second “Roscoe C. Jamison: A Voice Unheard” was published in fikr Wa Ibda, Cairo, 2011. The third “African-Americans’/ Affrilachians’ Suffering Mirrored: How do Nikky Finney’s “Red Velvet” and “Left” Capture events from the Past in order to Reshape the Present?” was published in Fikr Wa Ibda and is accepted for publication in Cairo Studies in a forthcoming volume, Cairo. The fourth “The Metaphor of Assimilation in Rab?arivelo's Poetry” was published in CLCWEB: Comparative Literature and Culture, Purdu University, 2009.

Ключевые слова: Noble Savage, African American poetry, Francophone Poetry, postcolonial novel.