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    Essay: The slave psyche in « Go Tell it on the Mountain »

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    Even if Baldwin's story takes place in 1935, the occurrences about slavery (which can be remembrances of the grown-ups, personal heritage of the youngest...) are extremely current. In fact, in Go Tell It on the Mountain, all the characters wear the stigmata of slavery, though it was banned in 1865; it continues to condition all their lives and it is mostly unconscious.

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    For instance, when John looks at him in the mirror (p. 30), he thinks that he is ugly, since he has integrated an important feeling of guilt. He is the product of a racist environment. He believes that Blacks are second-class citizens, and that a Black will always be lower as a White. In fact, his attitude perpetuates this false curse on blackness, which of course does not exist (“All niggers have been cursed” John thinks, p.228). It comes from the Bible with the damnation of Noah's son (considered as the ancestor of Asian and African people) Cham, who had to be “the servant of servants” (The Bible, “Genesis”, 9). Unconsciously, John permits this belief to possess a new generation of black people – his , being totally indoctrinated.
    As for Florence, she also perpetuates this behaviour. Totally brainwashed, she tries to look like less “black” by bleaching her face. She dislikes “common nigger” as her husband Franck, who does not make any effort to integrate himself in a white society. She is the victim of the segregation ideology.

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