Dr. Sayyed Rahim Moosavinia & Mohammad Hassan Saeedavi
Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran
One of the consequences of colonialism is the issue of miscegenation that has led to W. E. B. Du Bois’ “Double Consciousness” of many intellectuals including the speaker of “Cross”. Double Consciousness makes for a condition in which the intellectual stands at the border of two cultures. This condition is very apparent in the lines and the tone of the speaker of “Cross”. Langston Hughes illustrates this duality of being neither white nor black, as a result of miscegenation, very artistically in this poem. This paper aims to study the intellectual Double Consciousness of the speaker in the final couplet “I wonder where I’m gonna die, / Being neither white nor black?” of the poem “Cross”. Due to the miscegenation and the resulting Double Consciousness, the speaker cannot determine which culture to adapt. Therefore, he cannot obtain a consistent individuality.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 1-2 February 2018, Ahwaz.
