5/19/2023 0 Comments Homecoming yaa gyasi![]() ![]() ![]() This primary purpose of a title becomes essential for the Africans in slavery where they had to remember people they meet. To him, they were a label for his son, and he concentrated on finding him a powerful one regardless of the social balance he was expected to adapt. James Richard Collins’s father said “Will he not still be a prince to our people and to the whites too? I have given him a powerful name” when he was asked why he gave his son three British names (Gyasi 90). In the basic form, names describe an individual among many people. For this African woman, she could have chosen not to accept this, but since it was a white man, she had to do this. To him, it meant he had to sacrifice to maintain the legacy while living without it would make him free to follow his heart. He wanted to be a man without a name” by James is proof of the family importance attached to the title (Gyasi 104). The statement “His father had seven other sons who could carry on the Otcher-Collins legacy. The British replaced the maiden name of the woman with the surname of the husband she marries to associate her with the new family. ![]() An example is Millicent the half cast born to an African mother and a white man, “Millicent’s mother had been given a new name by her white husband” (Gyasi 9). Usually when we discuss racial repression, discrimination, priority may be the issue we are discussing, but the name can also reflect the issue of racial suppression. Racial oppression is very important and obvious in this book. ![]()
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