LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 19:10 October 2019
ISSN 1930-2940

Editors:
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         T. Deivasigamani, Ph.D.
         Pammi Pavan Kumar, Ph.D.
         Soibam Rebika Devi, M.Sc., Ph.D.

Managing Editor & Publisher: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.

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Maya Angelou’s Works Mapped on to the Writings of
Select Journalists for the Voiceless Community

Dr. Sivakami B., M.Phil., M.Ed., Ph.D.

The discrimination towards the black includes journalism which is a tool for gathering pieces of information and interpreting them in a straight manner but was utilized for sustaining the oppressed community in the society voiceless forever. As a matter of fact, the literature on the history of the black and feminist press shows the absence of the contributions from the black. Though the later part of 1800s and early part of 1900s saw a spate of writings from the black journalists, recent researches unearthed the contributions of the black women journalists-Mary Church Terrel, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Amy Jacques Garvey- through their diaries and autobiographies to confirm the suppression of their voices till then (Intro. Broussard). The white press discouraged their works owing to the racial nature of the content, even though they made sustained effort to reveal the existence of discrimination in their writings. These journalists found without proper reference for their being journalists but identified as a widow and daughter of someone. When deliberate attempt has been made recently to view their career from a literary perspective, their effort to attack racial discrimination for uplifting the lives of the black people through racial rights came to light.

The avoidance of publishing the article of coloured people by the white press was their attempt to suppress their voices only. Moreover, the white press calls their views “controversial” or “propaganda” (Broussard 50). Many of their works including autobiographies got rejected in order to discourage them from including any racial issues or even any reference to them.

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Dr. Sivakami B., M.Phil., M.Ed., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English, School of Social Science and Languages
Vellore Institute of Technology
Chennai – 600127
sivakami.b@vit.ac.in
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