RT Journal Article
T1 The Affiliative Relations of the Black Atlantic in John A. Williams’s The Man Who Cried I Am
A1 Fernández Fernández, Martín
K1 John A. Williams
K1 The Man Who Cried I Am
K1 Racism
K1 Affiliation
K1 African American identity
K1 King Alfred Plan
K1 Black Atlantic
AB This article explores how African American identity relates to different national scenarios in John A. Williams’s 1967 novel The Man Who Cried I Am. In his book, Williams narrates the story of Max Reddick, a forty-nine-year-old African American writer who, in a span of two days, remembers his nomadic life from his latest sojourn in the Netherlands. The large array of geographies that the protagonist traverses through the story comes together under Paul Gilroy’s notion of the Black Atlantic, in that the “affiliative” relations, following Edward Said’s terminology, that the protagonist experiences across Europe, the US, and Africa unveils the ties that bring together Black people in the West. In this light, the article argues that these transnational affiliative ties contribute to reshaping African American identity in the post-World War II period.
PB The Learned Society of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
SN 0035-7707
YR 2024
FD 2024-12-23
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/40630
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/40630
LA eng
NO Fernández Fernández, Martín. (2024). The Affiliative Relations of the Black Atlantic in John A. Williams’s The Man Who Cried I Am. “Roczniki Humanistyczne,” vol. 72, no. 11, 81–95
NO Ministerio de Universidades
NO European Social Fund
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026