Roots is still a literary return in psychoanalytical terms; it lifts a realization of being a Black American with African roots. It is even more a cultural and physical struggle against American culture by referring back to an African continuity. Roots, with the pastoral illustration of Africa always present, is a human affirmation, ethnological and cultural, a true record to defeat the Black man’s shame of slavery. The novel portrays the African situated in the wild and rural landscape of Africa sold into slavery on an abundant fertile land, which is at once wild, cultivated and colonized. Hence the story of Africans enslavement is the story of searching rural/pastoral roots through wild routes. Enslavement made wilderness seem a ‘home’ while
