LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 20:10 October 2020
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Paule Marshall and Feminine Aesthetic

Dr. C. Ramya, M.B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Abstract

This paper analyses Paule Marshall, black woman author, who orchestrates the theme of innocent and experience in her texts by offering a paradigm where her women’s growth towards self-enlightenment may be seen as a two-fold process; one of the psychic fracturing and the other of seeking wholeness and it also throws light on Afro-American culture and literature which progressed to intense fascination and culminated into a cultural reunion.

Keywords: Paule Marshall, Feminine Aesthetic, Black literature.

Introduction

It is honestly held and understood that Black literature is nothing but the literature of an oppressed and suppressed sect of people, It may sometimes be, of necessity, of Anglo-Saxon-American in form but never constant in tone or in philosophy; as it best it reflects ultimately the black experience or the life of the black people in America i.e., a sect of oppressed people who refused to be dehumanized into machines, those who refused to give up their ancient inheritance of secular play, warmth and gaiety of love and joy and sect of people who were continually aware of the deepest spiritual yearnings for freedom, peace and human dignity.

Generally speaking, the common and recurring themes in Black American fiction are identity crisis, racial problems like color, caste and class, protest, importance of tradition for Black American culture, need for meaningful relationships and quest for identity, which all get beautifully reflected in the works of black writers of the present century. Miscegenation is yet another major theme in Black fiction. The African tradition in African-American literature is a literary creation that embodies different ways in which the African-American writers explore what Africa is, what it means to him or her and what it means to the world. This tradition appeared in varied forms in poetry and prose and got reinforced from generation to generation. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Africa was viewed in African American literature and songs as a lost homeland but in the twentieth century the image of Africa was regained. Thus, the African American literature seems to have begun as a fading memory of a lost native land, progressed to intense fascination, and culminated into a cultural reunion.

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Dr. C. Ramya, M.B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
E.M.G. Yadava College for Women
MADURAI – 625 014
Tamil Nadu, India
rramyachelliah@gmail.com
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