Diverse Experiences In Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father: A Story Of Race And Inheritance

  • A. Sathiyavathi
  • Dr. V. K. Saravanan
Keywords: Race, Dreams, Identity, Inheritance, Experiences

Abstract

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance is a fictional memoir authored by Barack Obama, the forty-fourth President of the United States of America, and it contains his remarkable life story in his own words written with grace and precision. He was elected and reelected President of the United States in 2008 and in 2012. He is also the author of The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, Of Thee I Sing: A Letters to My Daughters, and A Promised Land. It is an interior journey, a boy’s search for his father through the search as a workable meaning for his life as a black American. A fictional memoir promises feats worthy of record, conversations with famous people, and a central role in important events but this memoir implies a summing up, a certain closure that hardly someone of his years still busy charting his way through the world. According to Obama, this book is also about his black brothers and sisters, all their various struggles. Although not born in Kenya, Barack Obama is thought of as a native son where he confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.

Author Biographies

A. Sathiyavathi

Ph.D. Research Scholar, Department of English, Annamalai University

Dr. V. K. Saravanan

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Annamalai University,

References

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3. Ignatius, Adi. Ed. President Obama: The Path to the White House. New York: Time Books, 2008. Print.
4. Obama, Barack. Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1996. Print.
5. Thomas, Garen. Yes We Can: A Biography of Barack Obama. New York: Macmillan, 2008. Print.
Published
2024-11-30
How to Cite
A. Sathiyavathi, & Dr. V. K. Saravanan. (2024). Diverse Experiences In Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father: A Story Of Race And Inheritance. Revista Electronica De Veterinaria, 25(1S), 1626-1628. https://doi.org/10.69980/redvet.v25i1S.1418