Junior college essay.
The steady liberation of the African American writers from the grounds of all racial chauvinism as well as the cultural isolation has currently been caused by rapid extension of some irrational democratic ideologies as well as some attitudes of the country and abroad. The writing field has exercised amplified liberal attitudes on the African American as both authors and as a subject. In the past five years, some firms like dial press, Houghton Mifflin Company, D. Appleton Company and others have published numerous books on general fiction and in the advertisements of the practices that have been directed towards the writers racial identity.
Most white authors have manifested some growing disposition in an attempt to describe the intellectual and the social dilemmas of the colored people. An American author Hugh M. Gloster feels that the African American writers have grown to be genuine and he goes ahead to explain why the African Americans has faced such harsh heartache and adversity from the writing field. On the other hand Nick Aaron Ford criticizes the African American writers thus challenges them in achieving great and equal writing status of some literary work. It is patent that equality, race, adversity of African American authors have not been easy but through times it has finally produced some literary work that make all Americans proud.
In evaluating the extent to which black portraits in the US fiction has taken place, we must consider all the cultural factors that have influenced lives of the African American and has created a major conflict among them and the white people. Most often the fictional concepts and the images of the black people that have been encountered in the plays, novels, short stories and others have shown an imminent situation of the divergence there have been among the African American writers and the whites. According to research, in the 20th century attitudes have changed and some fictional symbols has as well changed and become literary the tools. The stereotyped portraits have since evolved to individualized portraits. The most immense change that has occurred is in the attitudes of the blacks towards themselves and the attitudes some writers have on the African American writers. There has been an autonomous emergence of black pride, consciousness and assertion.
The two American writers debate on the same view point. They talk at length on the inability of the African American authors to achieve success in the writing field. Hugh the writer of race and the Negro writer and Nick the writer of a blue print for Negro authors deal with the same subject but quite opposing points of relevance. They both try to visit main reasons, causes and problems that the African American authors faces in order to put established grounds in the world of writing as they rub shoulders with legends and great people in the writing world.
Though both authors are dealing with the same subject matter, their views are totally different thus creating a critical debate on both authors. Among the two authors Gloster is true and close in describing the African American author. His idea is not only to criticize these authors for their incapacity to achieve success beyond reasonable doubt but to analyze the main reasons that have led to this whole plight and why the African American writers have been aloof for years. On the other hand, Ford comes with a different dimension of the whole idea on the failure of the African American writers. However, he has failed miserably in explaining the main reasons why they have been having an equally tough time in the writing field.
The only thing that Ford has succeeded in doing is finding some of the limitations of the writers without caring to look at the reasons behind the whole issue. This renders his arguments biased as there is no way you can just come up with critical points of the problems without giving reasons behind it all better still a solution to the problems. Gloster in his writing is kind towards the African American writers as he demarcates the causes of their problems and the reasons behind their failing. He explains that it is not really their fault but the circumstances have led to their failing and put them in a world of low success. His reasons are quite genuine as he explains why African Americans faced problems in the writing world. Ford is just a fault finder and a critic who gives all the mistakes why African Americans failed and gives issues like an improper selection of the materials, themes and characters. He puts these issues as their major mistake.
According to Gloster, the major reason for their inability to write anything that can really sell apart from their own nostalgia is because they have gone through a lot. They have gone through all the mystery and ills of slavery, racial dilemma, abuse, sufferings and discrimination on the grounds of their black color. The white population had always forced the African American to concentrate much on their distress when writing and how they can turn their failures into success. The issue of concentrating on their own lives without having a broad scope of other areas that are of importance to the society and other people has had an adverse effect in their careers. The impact was that these writers could not go beyond a certain level in their writing thus the white writers were always seen to be better. The ill treatments and sufferings have killed the philosophical perspective in the African American writer thus they cannot come with creative and new ideologies. Though it has been like that for decades, the African American writer has finally come out and put more effort in writing of the diversities, miseries and divergence of his class and status quo because of certain critics.
Contrary, according to Ford he asserts that African American writers may look promising they have never been in a position to find their way out and produce something effectual. He affirms that in 20th century there have been a couple of confused voices that were raised claiming that the African American writer has flunked completely. He maintains that for about two centuries, the African American writers have never attained their craftsmanship and the status that is expected for them. He criticizes their writing aptitude claiming that due to their awful experiences they have never had anything rational to write home about and their only satisfying performance is based on their expertise to write fiction. He affirms that it is not just the fact that they lack theme when writing but their inability to find a great scope or matter that they can write about is a major reason for their failure. It is clear that his reasoning grounds is full of criticism and the reasons he has given are not meant to help the situation but to demoralize the African American writers.
He even alleges that the African American writers have failed since their conversations are weak, their characters are questionable and the scenes that they came up with are a total bore and weak as they were just based on pity and terror. The reasoning grounds are irrational since he refutes to acknowledge the big picture that there are grave reasons that have led to their failure. Gloster on the other hand argues that all that the authors have actually written has been sought from their own world and it is neither uninteresting nor weak but just limited because of some plain reasons. Ford makes an illogical point that African Americans writing skills and ability has been poor but Gloster comes in support of them claiming that these has been led by circumstances beyond their means. His reasoning basis is harsh for the African American community. He just has an attitude towards the African American writers. He hates their styles, characters, content and the scenes. He has no any sympathy for them considering on where they are coming from and fails to comprehend the stuff they have gone through in the hands of discrimination, ill treatment and slavery. Gloster in his writing when he comes across some of the reasons the African Americans have led to their failure, he cites logical reasons that have kept them preoccupied in their own world. He describes their adversity and triumphs. He likes their whole work and has faith in them that they will make it. Ford has only succeeded in citing the mistakes. He has little respect in the literature of the African Americans and believes that their miseries that have taken place in their whole life are of less importance. Though , he sees some promise among some initial writers in the African Americans class, he is disappointed with the upcoming new writers and blames them for being confused and going ahead to supply their weak scripts.
Gloster does a tremendous job of taking us into the African American community to have a view of how they were mistreated thus their writers had a lot to write concerning that. Ford finds fault in the craftsmanship and in the content of the African Americans writers. To him, the issue of describing pain, glorious moments, miseries and others does not qualify them to be effective writers of great craftsmanship in literature. He believes that the African American writers leave a big room of so much to be desired in them and in their writing. He alleges that in 190 years of great efforts that there is no American poet that has actually achieved a status that can be compared to the first rate white poets for example Edwin Arlington. He claims that when it comes to drama, the record is nil as they have failed miserably.
He goes ahead to criticize these writers that no one of them deserve any listing to be among the first rate US novelists and only people like Frank Yerby deserves this place. In the art of fiction they have failed as their style is usually laborious and is only suitable to the sociological treaties. They fail immensely in the three essentials that include the aptitude to come up with some interesting and ordinary conversation, ability in constructing some unforgettable scenes since they only create terror and pity and to create some memorable characters.
Ford claims that the issue of the African American writers just writing about their social, physical and mental predicaments is actually an indication that they cannot come up with any other concept and such writers only makes issues worse on the grounds of segregation, race consciousness and racial proscription. In order to counteract the forces the writer should just write on universal themes and leave the white authors to write about African American life. That is a biased reasoning ground as it limits the freedom of choice among the African American writers.
The African American writers have been writing on what is of more concern to them and what they have gone through in the hands of the white people thus they are in a better position to narrate their predicament. On the other hand, he fails to acknowledge the fact that if the only people who will be permitted to address the grave issues are the white writers, there would be a room for biasness. Such distorted reasoning is plain sophistry. Since time in memorial, one of the main reasons and purposes of all literature has to represent the actions and the thoughts with much truth in life as is possible. Naturally a writer is permitted to portray life in a way that he feels deeply attached to.
The African American is more aware and understands the issue of race than any other white American. They should be let to write on what they know best. There is generally no white woman or man who can fathom the pathos, tragedy and the humor in being an African American in the US as a talented African American writer. Ford alleges that it is not sufficient for African American writers to go ahead and treat the racial themes without any regard to deep social implications. The main question that erupts is whether propaganda is really a legitimate issue in literature. Artists do not suffer when they are identified with a cause if the main cause they are talking about is them. They will continue to suffer most incase they are not identified with their problems. Gloster has been quite partial with the African American writers and asserts that in spite of the crippling and limiting impacts of the racial hypersensitivity, the African American writers have loosened some of the shackles that have held them in bondage for the past centuries. Though propaganda from the inside sources has always assisted the colored people during their struggles towards freedom and equality, the use of the racial subject issue has always handicapped the African American authors in some ways. It has retarded the whole attainment of cosmic grasps that result from varied humor, experiences as well as through tragic. It has always limited the literary range to the substance and race in the US.
He commends the African American writers since their plight has always made them to stand together and voice all their sufferings in one voice as well as their aspirations and triumphs. The inhumanities that have been related to slavery, all the frustrations of injustice and prejudice, the lynching and persecutions ravages have all led to the bitter experience among the African American writers thus it is already natural that these are some of the things they have decided to focus upon.
Much has been said about literature and the attitudes on black literature, whatever else that will ever be said on the main relationship of literature to our lives as far as the black man is concerned is just an addition of what we all know. Literature is a great weapon and has always and will continue to be in the future (Ernest 1977, pp.29). The English teachers who are determined to change the students biased racial attitudes on black Americans authors do employ black literature as the main catalyst. It is believed that if English teachers become confident with the black literature it will hence neutralize the attitudes of the white students towards the African American authors.
The fight that is meant to contain the monopolistic impulse of the corporate media has galvanized the activists of the media. Most of our current headlines are occupied with some racial content full of biasness (Salim, 2003). Some of them have come out in the open and passed some message to the African Americans. They have told them that racism happens to be old news and they should get over it (Salim, 2003). Racism assumptions have led to the failure of the African Americans. The biasness has been so much embedded in the US. Studies show that media coverage on the African American authors does exaggerate on its scope and unduly connects it to the African American writers. Race biasness is still present in America and the media has done a vast job in facilitating it. (Salim, 2003). It is evident that the two authors have differed in opinions and the underlying factor is that racism is still evident in the US. The African American community and the authors should be given a chance without being criticized to air their voices on the issues that surround them.
Most white authors have manifested some growing disposition in an attempt to describe the intellectual and the social dilemmas of the colored people. An American author Hugh M. Gloster feels that the African American writers have grown to be genuine and he goes ahead to explain why the African Americans has faced such harsh heartache and adversity from the writing field. On the other hand Nick Aaron Ford criticizes the African American writers thus challenges them in achieving great and equal writing status of some literary work. It is patent that equality, race, adversity of African American authors have not been easy but through times it has finally produced some literary work that make all Americans proud.
In evaluating the extent to which black portraits in the US fiction has taken place, we must consider all the cultural factors that have influenced lives of the African American and has created a major conflict among them and the white people. Most often the fictional concepts and the images of the black people that have been encountered in the plays, novels, short stories and others have shown an imminent situation of the divergence there have been among the African American writers and the whites. According to research, in the 20th century attitudes have changed and some fictional symbols has as well changed and become literary the tools. The stereotyped portraits have since evolved to individualized portraits. The most immense change that has occurred is in the attitudes of the blacks towards themselves and the attitudes some writers have on the African American writers. There has been an autonomous emergence of black pride, consciousness and assertion.
The two American writers debate on the same view point. They talk at length on the inability of the African American authors to achieve success in the writing field. Hugh the writer of race and the Negro writer and Nick the writer of a blue print for Negro authors deal with the same subject but quite opposing points of relevance. They both try to visit main reasons, causes and problems that the African American authors faces in order to put established grounds in the world of writing as they rub shoulders with legends and great people in the writing world.
Though both authors are dealing with the same subject matter, their views are totally different thus creating a critical debate on both authors. Among the two authors Gloster is true and close in describing the African American author. His idea is not only to criticize these authors for their incapacity to achieve success beyond reasonable doubt but to analyze the main reasons that have led to this whole plight and why the African American writers have been aloof for years. On the other hand, Ford comes with a different dimension of the whole idea on the failure of the African American writers. However, he has failed miserably in explaining the main reasons why they have been having an equally tough time in the writing field.
The only thing that Ford has succeeded in doing is finding some of the limitations of the writers without caring to look at the reasons behind the whole issue. This renders his arguments biased as there is no way you can just come up with critical points of the problems without giving reasons behind it all better still a solution to the problems. Gloster in his writing is kind towards the African American writers as he demarcates the causes of their problems and the reasons behind their failing. He explains that it is not really their fault but the circumstances have led to their failing and put them in a world of low success. His reasons are quite genuine as he explains why African Americans faced problems in the writing world. Ford is just a fault finder and a critic who gives all the mistakes why African Americans failed and gives issues like an improper selection of the materials, themes and characters. He puts these issues as their major mistake.
According to Gloster, the major reason for their inability to write anything that can really sell apart from their own nostalgia is because they have gone through a lot. They have gone through all the mystery and ills of slavery, racial dilemma, abuse, sufferings and discrimination on the grounds of their black color. The white population had always forced the African American to concentrate much on their distress when writing and how they can turn their failures into success. The issue of concentrating on their own lives without having a broad scope of other areas that are of importance to the society and other people has had an adverse effect in their careers. The impact was that these writers could not go beyond a certain level in their writing thus the white writers were always seen to be better. The ill treatments and sufferings have killed the philosophical perspective in the African American writer thus they cannot come with creative and new ideologies. Though it has been like that for decades, the African American writer has finally come out and put more effort in writing of the diversities, miseries and divergence of his class and status quo because of certain critics.
Contrary, according to Ford he asserts that African American writers may look promising they have never been in a position to find their way out and produce something effectual. He affirms that in 20th century there have been a couple of confused voices that were raised claiming that the African American writer has flunked completely. He maintains that for about two centuries, the African American writers have never attained their craftsmanship and the status that is expected for them. He criticizes their writing aptitude claiming that due to their awful experiences they have never had anything rational to write home about and their only satisfying performance is based on their expertise to write fiction. He affirms that it is not just the fact that they lack theme when writing but their inability to find a great scope or matter that they can write about is a major reason for their failure. It is clear that his reasoning grounds is full of criticism and the reasons he has given are not meant to help the situation but to demoralize the African American writers.
He even alleges that the African American writers have failed since their conversations are weak, their characters are questionable and the scenes that they came up with are a total bore and weak as they were just based on pity and terror. The reasoning grounds are irrational since he refutes to acknowledge the big picture that there are grave reasons that have led to their failure. Gloster on the other hand argues that all that the authors have actually written has been sought from their own world and it is neither uninteresting nor weak but just limited because of some plain reasons. Ford makes an illogical point that African Americans writing skills and ability has been poor but Gloster comes in support of them claiming that these has been led by circumstances beyond their means. His reasoning basis is harsh for the African American community. He just has an attitude towards the African American writers. He hates their styles, characters, content and the scenes. He has no any sympathy for them considering on where they are coming from and fails to comprehend the stuff they have gone through in the hands of discrimination, ill treatment and slavery. Gloster in his writing when he comes across some of the reasons the African Americans have led to their failure, he cites logical reasons that have kept them preoccupied in their own world. He describes their adversity and triumphs. He likes their whole work and has faith in them that they will make it. Ford has only succeeded in citing the mistakes. He has little respect in the literature of the African Americans and believes that their miseries that have taken place in their whole life are of less importance. Though , he sees some promise among some initial writers in the African Americans class, he is disappointed with the upcoming new writers and blames them for being confused and going ahead to supply their weak scripts.
Gloster does a tremendous job of taking us into the African American community to have a view of how they were mistreated thus their writers had a lot to write concerning that. Ford finds fault in the craftsmanship and in the content of the African Americans writers. To him, the issue of describing pain, glorious moments, miseries and others does not qualify them to be effective writers of great craftsmanship in literature. He believes that the African American writers leave a big room of so much to be desired in them and in their writing. He alleges that in 190 years of great efforts that there is no American poet that has actually achieved a status that can be compared to the first rate white poets for example Edwin Arlington. He claims that when it comes to drama, the record is nil as they have failed miserably.
He goes ahead to criticize these writers that no one of them deserve any listing to be among the first rate US novelists and only people like Frank Yerby deserves this place. In the art of fiction they have failed as their style is usually laborious and is only suitable to the sociological treaties. They fail immensely in the three essentials that include the aptitude to come up with some interesting and ordinary conversation, ability in constructing some unforgettable scenes since they only create terror and pity and to create some memorable characters.
Ford claims that the issue of the African American writers just writing about their social, physical and mental predicaments is actually an indication that they cannot come up with any other concept and such writers only makes issues worse on the grounds of segregation, race consciousness and racial proscription. In order to counteract the forces the writer should just write on universal themes and leave the white authors to write about African American life. That is a biased reasoning ground as it limits the freedom of choice among the African American writers.
The African American writers have been writing on what is of more concern to them and what they have gone through in the hands of the white people thus they are in a better position to narrate their predicament. On the other hand, he fails to acknowledge the fact that if the only people who will be permitted to address the grave issues are the white writers, there would be a room for biasness. Such distorted reasoning is plain sophistry. Since time in memorial, one of the main reasons and purposes of all literature has to represent the actions and the thoughts with much truth in life as is possible. Naturally a writer is permitted to portray life in a way that he feels deeply attached to.
The African American is more aware and understands the issue of race than any other white American. They should be let to write on what they know best. There is generally no white woman or man who can fathom the pathos, tragedy and the humor in being an African American in the US as a talented African American writer. Ford alleges that it is not sufficient for African American writers to go ahead and treat the racial themes without any regard to deep social implications. The main question that erupts is whether propaganda is really a legitimate issue in literature. Artists do not suffer when they are identified with a cause if the main cause they are talking about is them. They will continue to suffer most incase they are not identified with their problems. Gloster has been quite partial with the African American writers and asserts that in spite of the crippling and limiting impacts of the racial hypersensitivity, the African American writers have loosened some of the shackles that have held them in bondage for the past centuries. Though propaganda from the inside sources has always assisted the colored people during their struggles towards freedom and equality, the use of the racial subject issue has always handicapped the African American authors in some ways. It has retarded the whole attainment of cosmic grasps that result from varied humor, experiences as well as through tragic. It has always limited the literary range to the substance and race in the US.
He commends the African American writers since their plight has always made them to stand together and voice all their sufferings in one voice as well as their aspirations and triumphs. The inhumanities that have been related to slavery, all the frustrations of injustice and prejudice, the lynching and persecutions ravages have all led to the bitter experience among the African American writers thus it is already natural that these are some of the things they have decided to focus upon.
Much has been said about literature and the attitudes on black literature, whatever else that will ever be said on the main relationship of literature to our lives as far as the black man is concerned is just an addition of what we all know. Literature is a great weapon and has always and will continue to be in the future (Ernest 1977, pp.29). The English teachers who are determined to change the students biased racial attitudes on black Americans authors do employ black literature as the main catalyst. It is believed that if English teachers become confident with the black literature it will hence neutralize the attitudes of the white students towards the African American authors.
The fight that is meant to contain the monopolistic impulse of the corporate media has galvanized the activists of the media. Most of our current headlines are occupied with some racial content full of biasness (Salim, 2003). Some of them have come out in the open and passed some message to the African Americans. They have told them that racism happens to be old news and they should get over it (Salim, 2003). Racism assumptions have led to the failure of the African Americans. The biasness has been so much embedded in the US. Studies show that media coverage on the African American authors does exaggerate on its scope and unduly connects it to the African American writers. Race biasness is still present in America and the media has done a vast job in facilitating it. (Salim, 2003). It is evident that the two authors have differed in opinions and the underlying factor is that racism is still evident in the US. The African American community and the authors should be given a chance without being criticized to air their voices on the issues that surround them.
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