LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 10 October 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Revisiting A. W. Grimke: Releasing the Stored Energy

Shubhanku Kochar, M.Phil.

Angelina Weld Grimke

Great writers do not write for their own age, but for all the ages to come. Their creative genius is not curtailed to one century. They have a universal appeal. They even do not write for a particular sect, class, race or gender. Their appeal is to all people in all ages in all places. Any critical theory or any standard of judgement can be applied to evaluate their works. Their view of human nature is broad. The writers like: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Tolstoy, Kalidas, and Prem Chand are only a few examples.

Angelina Weld Grimke is also such a writer who can be placed in this unending catalogue. Her writings can be interpreted in more than one way; moreover her appeal is also not limited. Though, she was an Afro-American, but her writings appeal to everyone whether black or white.

Focus of This Paper

This paper is an attempt to analyse Grimke’s selected poems, chosen randomly, and a short story from three different perspectives. The paper is divided in three parts. The first part is an attempt to apply the standards set by Langston Hughes in “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (1926). The second part is an attempt to analyse her writings from the criteria laid down by Carolyn F. Gerald in “The Black Writer and His Role” (1969). The third and final part is devoted to an eco-critical evaluation of her writings because of the utility and the topicality of the environmental issues after 1990s.

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Shubhanku Kochar, M.Phil.
Assistant Professor
Lady Irwin College
University of Delhi
New Delhi 110001
India
shubhankukochar@live.com
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