O'Neill's Treatment of Racism in All God's Chillum Got Wings and the Emperor Jones

Society and culture of a particular place is governed by certain elements that have substantial impact on personality and behavior of people of that very place. These elements range from such micro ones as home and family to such macro ones as religious affiliation, ethnic and sectarian belongingness and economic conditions. Impact of these cultural elements could be substantially meaningful in developing healthy personality traits or regressive behavioral defects. American literature provides rich study of what could be the disturbing role of such factor as racial belongingness on personality and behavior. O'Neill's plays provide an instance of the role of racial factor in personality disintegration and psychic derangement. However, this study evaluates this in with reference to his All God Chillum Got wings and The Emperor Jones. Secondly it asserts that the peculiar psychic states as highlighted in All God's Chillum in particular cannot be taken in isolation as they bear characteristic similarity with regressive personality and behavioral trends in his other plays not concerned with racism. Thus the personality regression here in these plays is in line with similar states in other plays.

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American literature ； culture ； human behavior ； O'Neill's Drama

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