“THERE IS MORE TO THE WORLD THAN ONE PLUS ONE”: EXPLORING THE PROCESS OF SELF-ACTUALIZATION IN WALTER MOSLEY’S THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT.
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In The Man in My Basement, Walter Mosley attempts to analyze the depths of the psychodynamic consequences of prejudice. The novel symbolizes the troubled self of the individual black American, who has to reject the given masks imposed on him by whites and see himself as an autonomous individual.With the tropes of masking (concealment) and unmasking (revelation), this paper discusses the cultural and identity distortion of the African American and focuses on the process of his self-actualization through an operation for a cultural amendment in order to secure his subjectivity. The itinerary of this emerging self or regeneration constitutes the kernel of this paper.
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[N’guessan Koffi Eugene. (2017); “THERE IS MORE TO THE WORLD THAN ONE PLUS ONE”: EXPLORING THE PROCESS OF SELF-ACTUALIZATION IN WALTER MOSLEY’S THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jan). 1372-1379] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
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