@article{oai:kyotogakuen.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000939, author = {Bird, Paul}, issue = {1}, month = {2013-09-01, 2018-06-09}, note = {Chester Himes was a black American writer who began publishing his short stories while remanded in prison for armed robbery. This paper is a study of the central characters in four of his short stories: ‘His Last Day’, ‘Looking Down the Street’, ‘Head Waiter’ and ‘Heaven Has Changed’. The focus is upon Himes’s representation of black American protagonists in relation to his own actual experience as a black American, and also within the social context of racial segregation in depression era America in the 1930s., 7, KJ00010210399, Article}, pages = {119--131}, title = {Struggle and Fear : a Study of Experience and Identity in Four Short Stories by Chester Hims}, volume = {23}, year = {} }