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Abstract
One of the most striking features of the United States is its diversity. It is an amalgam of different races, different ethnicities and different cultures. But despite this diversity, the United States is not really a melting pot where all groups melt together and create a new mix carrying the flavor of all of its.
components. On the contrary, in the multicultural United States, a mainstream Eurocentric white culture has become the dominant one which tries to push all the other cultures to the margins, treating them as dregs in the great melting pot of America. Although the United States claims to promote diversity and pluralism, an unspoken attempt to wipe out the unique identities of ethnic minorities and urge assimilation and submission to the dominant culture has been going on through the media, the linguistic environment, the educational system
and the daily social pressure. Since literature could be a mirror of society, which reflects, and sometimes
tries to solve, its problems, one of the main goals of ethnic American literature is to dismantle. Eurocentrism and revive the c~lltural .identities of minorities in
America. Thus, the quest for identity is a common theme in African American,
Chicano, Asian, Puerto Rican, Jewish and Native American literature. This
thesis focuses on the dramatic works of August Wilson, an African American
dramatist whose art has been conceived as a way to invigorate the black identity in the American society.