Going to Meet the Man

Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin, Counterparts by James Joyce, and The Metamorphosis by Franz Karaka share several similarities.  The first similarity is the futility of life the characters feel like there is no way out for them.  Secondly, the means of escape that both fathers used in…

Even though slavery is considered to be the past, its echo is still heard in the present because it is impossible simply to pretend that it has never happened. There was too much pain expressed in various ways. American African literature is one of such fields that keeps memories and…