Cambridge Scholars Publishing The African American Journey to the Power Dome: Wright, Ellison, Baldwin

How far has the American Dream been accessible to black characters in African American literature? The answer to this question requires a deep probing of the emotional and ideological patterns delineated in Black American narratives. This book traces the African American journey from the plantation to the power dome through multiple socio-artistic perspectives of Black American authorship. It captures numerous referential inventions ranging from the ‘colored’ to the ‘Black American,’ while throwing light on the transforming status of America’s Native Son, the marked visibility of its Invisible Man, and endless aspirations hovering Just Above My Head. This book highlights how these narratives―despite their authors being fundamentally different in their respective approaches―are connected to each other. About the Author Dr Bhumika Sharma is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the School of Humanities and Languages of the Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, India. A double postgraduate with Masters degrees in English and Economics from the University of Rajasthan, she also holds a doctorate in English. Her research interests include gender studies, postcolonial literature, Indian literature and African American writing. Her publications include the articles “Interdisciplinary Aesthetics: A Postmodernist Study of Bharti’s Andha Yug” in Indian Literature; “Baldwin’s Quest for Panacea: A Case Study” in the Journal of African American Studies with Springer Publishing; and “Theory, Literature, and Dialogue: Bakhtinian Consciousness in New Indian Literature” and “Knowledge, Ethics and Choices: Theorizing the Functional Matrix of Literature as a Humanities Discipline” in Epiphany: Journal of Transdisciplinary Studies; and a book Discoursing Minority: In-Text and Co-Text (as co-editor, 2014).