In this context, Wilson states that his ' focus is on their dreams, their restlessness, and their struggle to find practical and spiritual havens in an essentially hostile society “( Pereira 3). Wilson’s plays are characterized by their intrinsic authenticity. White assimilation threatens the black identity itself. In America, the gap between one generation and another normally manifested through a misplaced anger, which under certain conditions, escalates to violent reaction. An artist is no exception in this regard, especially a dramatist who was influenced by the past occurrences, that s/he witnessed during the course of his life, and which later, become the source of his inspiration in respect to culture, gender, race, politics and socio-economic status. There no doubt that people are influenced too much by the world around them, and that they possess unique individual experience and personality, likes and dislikes, behaviors and aspirations. Keywords: Culture, Identity, Fences, Afro-American People. This study concludes that losing the individual’s culture will create identity disturbance and rootlessness that lead to the lost generation of Afro-American people. Wilson's plays have clearly displayed the tensions among blacks who wanted to clutch their African legacy. As he was trying to supply the black people with determination to gain freedom, he depicted exploitation, abuse and slavery. Wilson' dramatized the life of his fellow people to visualize their suffering and plight within American society. Wilson had played a great role in raising global issues affecting most societies in the 20th century. Therefore, this study aims at investigating how Wilson seeks to rediscover African- American's history and culture via multi-messages besides the play’s title. In the light of Marcus Garvey “people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots”. Man becomes the focal point of most subject matters of the modernist writers who focus on the concept of humanism. Identity, values, history, language and principles of a man all compose the cultural form of a cultural form of an individual.

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