LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 16:1 January 2016
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.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
         N. Nadaraja Pillai, Ph.D.
         Renuga Devi, Ph.D.
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Women as Victims:
An Analysis of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

E. Dhivya, Ph.D. Scholar


Abstract

This paper deals with the theme of women’s quest for self, new identity and freedom to assert their femininity in and out of their married lives. African American woman writers are attempting to define their self-identity and trying to sustain their self in a hostile land. The author has brought in the other side of the African American women’s real life in her fiction. The characters’ uniqueness is their determination to appreciate themselves and celebrate their womanhood. The new African American woman believes in herself and wants to survive with dignity. This paper also speaks about the marginality, not only at the universal level, but also inside the same community, race and class.

Keywords:African American women, Feminism, Marginality, Suppression, Alienation

Introduction

African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African American descent. The genre traces its origins back to the works of the late eighteenth century. The oral tradition as a Movement reached its height with the slave narration and the Harlem renaissance; and it is continuing till today. Writers like Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Walter Mosley are ranked among the top writers in the United States. African-American literature depicts the culture, racism, slavery and equality. At the beginning African-American writings focused on the slavery and racism, but in today’s world it narrates their culture, tradition and way of life among the African Americans. African-American literature has become the integral part of American literature.

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E. Dhivya, Ph.D. Scholar
PSGR Krishnammal College for Women
Coimbatore 642 004
Tamilnadu
India
dhivi.1777@gmail.com
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