Racial Discrimination of the Black Man in Eudora Welty's: "Powerhouse"
Najlaa Kamil Saleh
College Education for Woman- University of Anbar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.5.1.6
Keywords: Powerhouse, color line, segregated, Signifying Monkey
Abstract
Eudora Welty's "Powerhouse" argues the plight of the black on the hand of the white. This paper presents how the racial differences turn from just a concept to a social system and dichotomy. It views the dilemma of the Black men and women in the white society. The investigation will trace back the role of Racial Discrimination in constructing the social, cultural, economic, and political systems. It shows the African-American theory as a Key concept in analyzing Eudora Welty's "Powerhouse". It focuses on the apartheid depiction of the black over the world. It stresses the significance of differences and Race. Welty's "Powerhouse" produces such segregated representation through the major figure of this short story. Powerhouse is Welty's hero whose name as a metaphor for power is in opposition to her character's depiction, which reveals the racial discrimination of colonial discourse and the white societies. Theorists consider the Race as the source of differences like Michael Banton who declares that race builds on difference. The color skin is the major struggle: the "color- line" is the core theory for W.E. Du Bois as it stresses the differences between the black and white. Moreover, "The Signifying Monkey" method by Henry Louis Gates Jr. reveals these differences and the racial discrimination.
