A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SONG OF SOLOMON AND JUNETEENTH IN THE LIGHT OF HOMI K. BHABHA’S VIEWPOINTS

Abstract

Song of Solomon (1977) by Toni Morrison and Juneteenth (1999) by Ralph Ellison belong to African-American literature and present a rich account of life amid slavery. These two novels both have some political, cultural, economic, and societal links in common and this is the reason they belong to the same literary kind. This study seeks to examine them through concepts of hybridity and mimicry as a number of significant postcolonial concepts employed by Homi K. Bhabha. In fact, each of these novels was written out of the experience of slavery and emphasized the clash with the white power. It is this reason which makes them characteristically analogous. It is eventually found that both the novels’ protagonists are displaced in different aspects, and suffer from the loss of identity. This is the reason they continually vacillate. Likewise, both novels are clear depictions of how slavery leads to the black communities’ falling-out and being regarded as outsiders