 “Cora Unashamedâ€: Relationships and Their Racial ImplicationsGassim H. Dohal World Journal of English Language, 2023, vol. 13, issue 7, 350 Abstract: Injustice, oppression, and bad treatment are among those habits that have been lingering in societies that many writers have been trying hard to address throughout the ages. Among those writers is Langston Hughes in his story “Cora Unashamed†where he has boldly presented the real struggle of black people with a white system.“Cora Unashamed†appeared in his work The Ways of White Folks (ed. 1971). The important relationship in this story is that of the white and black races; in the story, Cora represents the blacks while the Studevants and their daughter are white. Worth mentioning is the male-female relationship in this story. By exploring the concept of racial master-slave relationship and studying the idea of the whites’ superiority, the paper aims at scrutinizing how the whites use racism and slavery to approve their domination over the blacks. Besides, it investigates the impacts of slavery and racism on the blacks. Close-reading method is employed to analyze the story. Besides, the contextual method which focuses on intrinsic and extrinsic elements is utilized. The result of the analysis shows that race helps in the whites’ domination over other minorities, particularly the blacks. In other respect, master-slave relationships have their great negative economic impacts on the poor people. Date: 2023 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jfr:wjel11:v:13:y:2023:i:7:p:350 Access Statistics for this article World Journal of English Language is currently edited by Joe Nelson More articles in World Journal of English Language from Sciedu Press |
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