LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 8 August 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Depiction of Unusual Women -
A Study of Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place

Preetha. C., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Scholar

Afro-American Novel

Afro-American novel is an extended prose narrative written by an Afro-American who depicts or explains in detail the experience of black Americans in a formal, imaginatively distinctive manner. It can be different from the other works thematically, structurally or stylistically. The Afro-American writers are very keen in giving importance to their tradition. By tradition they mean the customs beliefs and conventions inherited from the past. The Afro-American novel in general attempts to reveal how race, class and sex compound the anxiety of black men and women in search of a distinctive voice.

Black Women

The Black women suffered from the twin disadvantages of racial discrimination and a pronounced gender bias. No other social group has been subjected to the worst kinds of exploitation and oppression. They were forced to endure the horrors of slavery and as a worker she was the object of continuous exploitation, occupying the lowest place on the wage scale and restricted to the most filthy and uncreative jobs. As a woman her physical image was defamed and became the target of white man's lust. A well-known scientist Calvin Hernton has described the position and fate of the black women thus:

The Negro women through the years has suffered (and endured) every sexual outrage (withal of the psychological ramifications) that a democratic society can possibly inflict upon the human -being. The sexual atrocities that the Negro women has suffered in the united states, south and North and what these atrocities have done to her personality as a female creature is a tale more bloody and brutal that most of us can imagine. (123)

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Preetha. C., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Scholar)
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Affiliated to Periyar University
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Tamilnadu
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