LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 9 September 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.
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         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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The Vicious Cycle of Violence in Alice Walker’s
The Third Life of Grange Copeland

J. Samuel Kirubahar, Ph.D.
Mrs. Beulah Mary Rosalene

Abstract

The object of psychoanalytic literary criticism can be simply defined as the psychoanalysis of the author or a particularly interesting character in the novel. Existentialism, maintains that the individual is solely responsible for giving his or her own life meaning and for living that life passionately and sincerely, in spite of many existential obstacles and distractions including despair, anger, absurdity, alienation, and boredom. It also magnifies the importance of freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one’s acts.

Homi K. Bhabha argues that cultural identities cannot be credited to pre-given, irreducible, scripted, ahistorical cultural traits that define the conventions of ethnicity. Nor can “colonizer” and “colonized” be viewed as separate entities that define themselves independently. Bhabha argues that the “liminal” space is a “hybrid” site that leads to the production of a culture that may be mutual or has mutations. The concept of “otherness” is also integral to the comprehension of a person, as people construct roles for themselves in relation to an “other” as part of a process of reaction. It often involves the dehumanization of groups also. The character of Grange Copeland in Alice Walker’s first novel The Third Life of Grange Copeland lends us the space to study theses theories, based on Walker’s concept of womanism.

Introduction

Literature is splitting into distinct and separate grouping because of the rise of identity politics in the United States and other parts of the world. Today African American literature has been accepted as an integral part of American Literature. Womanism is a symphonic elegy woven on the theme of the oppressed. Womanist theory exposes the quagmires of racism, sexism and classism in the lived experiences of the African American community. Walker’s womanism holds well in its goal which believes in the educational, moral and spiritual progress of the African American community which in turn will improve the general standing of the entire community.

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J. Samuel Kirubahar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Research Centre in English
VHNSN College (Autonomous)
Virudhungar – 626 001
Tamil Nadu
India
samuelkirubhakar@yahoo.in

Mrs. Beulah Mary Rosalene
Associate Professor
Centre for English and Foreign Languages
Dayananda Sagar Institutions
Bangalore – 560078
Karnataka, India
rosalene.victor@gmail.com
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