DENOTING POSITIVE SYNTACTIC REPRESENTATION OF AFRICANISM AND DECONSTRUCTION OF BINARY OPPOSITIONS IN 21ST CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICAN NOVEL

Abstract

The African American community places a premium on diverse viewpoints to be called a pride of the United States. They have always been exposed to the constant stress of discrimination and stereotypical representation linked with negativity and poor standards. This discussion raises a question whether black people’s proud reconciling experiences of racism, institutional discrimination, and the struggle for self-identity have been wasted in the United States or it bears some fruits. This paper analyzes positive use of language that denote constructive thought and presents better version of African Americans as portrayed by Nancy Johnson in the Kindest Lie. The study investigates the syntactic use of language to deconstruct stereotypical representation of black people and traces revolutionary idea in the selected text in the light of Derridean notion of deconstructionism. Textual analysis of the novel proves that African American authoress uses African version for everything to present and applaud Africanism and uses positive syntactic expression to praise blackness and other socio-cultural objects associated with it.