African American Literature acts as a creative umpire that offers possibilities for blacks in the United States to mediate their general aspirations and desires/as a body of literature, black writing started in the 1st century as the medium that provides African Americans the platform to interrogate the dynamics of the African American Identity, community and experience within America. Therefore, this paper is anchored on the above title based on the history of the African American which is marked with series of traumatic events that can be traced back to the “middle passage” that is the millions of African who were taken away to work in coffee, cotton and sugar plantations. Consequently, the paper uses qualitative research method to gather information concerning trauma and cultural memory as presented in the selected texts.
Iyere Maria Jennifer (Wed,) studied this question.