PERSECUTION IN FLORIDA: A MEMORY AND TRAUMA READING OF COLSON WHITEHEAD’S THE NICKEL BOYS

P. Maruthupandian; R. Ajith

doi:10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i2.2024.4204

PERSECUTION IN FLORIDA: A MEMORY AND TRAUMA READING OF COLSON WHITEHEAD’S THE NICKEL BOYS

Authors

P. Maruthupandian Reg. No – 21222234011016, Ph. D. Scholar (Part-Time), P.G. & Research Department of English, V. O. Chidambaram College, Thoothukudi, Affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundarnar University, Tirunelveli.
Dr. R. Ajith Assistant Professor & Research Supervisor, PG & Research Department of English, V.O. Chidambaram College, Thoothukudi, Affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundarnar University, Tirunelveli.

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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i2.2024.4204

Keywords:

Jim Crow Law, Persecution, Memory, Trauma and Justice

Abstract [English]

The abolition of slavery didn’t put an end to the problems of African Americans. They were reduced to people with no means of living. They couldn’t find a sure footing in such a vast country. They were dragged in to debt labour through various laws. Jim Crow being the popular that Nazis modeled their Anti Jew laws based on this. The Nickel Boys is a coming-of-age tale set in the Jim Crow era Florida that tells the story of Elwood who was caught in the web of the oppressive law and suffered infinitely. A tale with pain, torture, agony and hope through justice in the end.

References

Jim Crow Law | History, Facts, & Examples | Britannica. 21 Nov. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/event/Jim-Crow-law.

Rich, Frank. “In ‘The Nickel Boys,’ Colson Whitehead Depicts a Real-Life House of Horrors.” The New York Times, 14 July 2019. NYTimes.com, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/14/books/review/nickel-boys-colson-whitehead.html.

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Review – Essential Follow-up to The Underground Railroad | Fiction | The Guardian. https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/26/the-nickel-boys-colson-whitehead-review. Accessed 9 Dec. 2023.

Whitehead, Colson. The Nickel Boys. First edition, Doubleday, 2019

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2024-02-29

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Maruthupandian, P., & Ajith, R. (2024). PERSECUTION IN FLORIDA: A MEMORY AND TRAUMA READING OF COLSON WHITEHEAD’S THE NICKEL BOYS. ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts, 5(2), 1069–1071. https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i2.2024.4204

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Vol. 5 No. 2 (2024): Volume 5 Issue 2 February - 2024

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