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标题：O'Neill's Treatment of Racism in All God's Chillum Got Wings and the Emperor Jones
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作者：Asim Karim
期刊名称：Current Research Journal of Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2041-3238
电子版ISSN：2041-3246
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
期号：4
页码：334-341
出版社：MAXWELL Science Publication
摘要：Society and culture of a particular place is governed by certain elements that have substantial impact on the very 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. The 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 treatment of racial factor did not develop into a set pattern in his long dramatic career and the consensus is that he predominantly followed stereotypic image of the white/black in American society. This study, however, evaluates specific impact of racism in personality/behavioral disintegration in 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 match similar states produced in his other plays not concerned with racism. Thus the treatment of personality regression here is in line with similar states in other plays.
关键词：Culture ; human ; O'Neill's Drama ; psychoanalysis ; ;