The novel A Different Drummer William by African American writer Melville Kelley narrates the departure of an African American named Tucker Caliban from Sutton to an unknown destination in North.This paper argues that the mass exodus of African Americans leads to the vacancy of indigenous features in American South.It investigates the influences of the African Americans' exodus on the reconstruction and completeness of indigenous features in American South.It illuminates that the return of African Americans helps to construct a multicultural society in the United States.
A Different Drummerthe exodus of African Americanspsychological realismvacancy of indigenous features