Alex Haley's Roots

Alex Haley’s the most notable novel Roots (1976) identifies the writer with the land of his origins Africa. Africa was his homeland and his ancestors’ homeland. Roots is much more than a book. Haley’s appeal to love his past, his people, earth, his nature, his tribes, his dialects, his ways of living, is a constant attempt to be him. Africa is a source of cultural pride for him. Roots raises a realization of being a black American with African roots. It is even more; it is a cultural and physical resistance against American culture by referring back to an African continuity. Haley wants to bring the blacks back to their roots by adopting pastoral values. He believes in his culture’s strength, which is an integral part of nature. Roots, with