Interpreting the Personality Transformation and Tragic Fate of the Characters in The Nickel Boys from the Perspective of Cultural Hegemony

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Colson Whitehead; the Nickel Boys; Cultural Hegemonism

Abstract

Based on actual events in history and taking the Nickel School in Florida, the southern United States during the Jim Crow era as the focus of the narrative, Colson Whitehead’s award-winning novel The Nickel Boys recreates the actual scenes of racial persecution in history and restores the oppressive nature of cultural hegemony through a detailed description of the survival situation of black characters. At the same time, the author incorporated his thoughts about the present into the book and expressed his profound reflections on the reality in the United States and his political claim to achieve true racial equality.

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TI  - Interpreting the Personality Transformation and Tragic Fate of the Characters in The Nickel Boys from the Perspective of Cultural Hegemony
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 2nd International Conference on Language, Innovative Education and Cultural Communication (CLEC 2024)
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