In My Father's House | Social Concerns/Themes
In My Father's House explores a universal range of social concerns, although many of them are by-products of racism. It concentrates on matters that were only sub-themes in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pillman (1971): the oppression of women, marital infidelity, social instability amid the poverty and uncertainty of a racist society, the isolation of those who seek to effect change, and the neglect of children. The pivotal ethical predicament of the novel is the dilemma of the main character, Phillip Martin, who has, in an earlier life, abandoned his wife and three...
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