Haves and Have-nots, Black and White: Dichotomies at Work in Dionne Brand’s Fiction

The paper “Haves and Have-nots, Black and White: Dichotomies at Work in Dionne Brand’s Fiction” is an attempt to throw light upon the racial and socio-political and economic problems faced by the Blacks citing the life experiences of the characters of Dionne Brand’s fiction. The racial and the class-division-imposed life situations and existential crises of identity Dionne Brand’s characters confront, their intuitive responses to these verities, and the answers they fail to formulate into arguments of vehemence are investigated by the researcher here.

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