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- Title
Black Gaze at a Coloured Nation: A Study of Martin Luther King Jr.'s My Trip to the Land of Gandhi (1959).
- Authors
Bhattacharyya, Pronami
- Abstract
This paper aims at studying the layer of Americanism in the gaze of the African-Americans when they visit a place other than their present homeland, i.e. America. Often lived experiences of the "blacks" are erased by the formation of the prototypical white gaze which becomes evident when those "black" bodies leave their soil and visit a new place and its people. The whiteness or Americanism in the gazes of African-Americans is not physical but cultural and to examine this argument, this paper attempts to study Martin Luther King, Jr.'s My Trip to the Land of Gandhi (1959).
- Subjects
GAZE in literature; RACE relations in literature; AFRICAN Americans in literature; KING, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; GANDHI, Mahatma, 1869-1948; INDIA description &; travel; POLITICAL attitudes
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2014, Vol 5, Issue 4, p192
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Literary Criticism