passed on to me in the word shop of the kitchen” (Contemporary Black Biography, 1995). Valenza Pauline Burke, later known as Paule Marshall, is an American novelist, whose novels emphasize the necessity for black Americans to regain their African heritage. She was born on April 9, 1929 in Brooklyn New York for Ada and Samuel Burke. Through her literature, she highlights the oppressive systems that are in place. Brown Girl, Brownstones, published in 1959, was Paule Marshall’s first novel which describes
Diaspora literature is often considered as a product of the privileged immigrants having the advantages of education and literacy. This kind of literature is tinged with different types of diasporic feelings that the first and second generation of diaspora writers explore. The literature has as its central focus discrimination, nostalgia, identity crisis and a sense of cultural alienation. In general, this type of literature draws our attention towards the isolation of the immigrants in the new land
American Literature is the literary area which contains many of the most renowned writers in English. Although it is the literary area of America, its literary tradition begins with the tradition of British Literature. But now it has its own literary tradition. Most of the American writers proved that their novels are the reflection of the society in which they are grown up. Moreover, the political writings in American Literature discussed the social issues like liberty, education system of modern
Alienation and exile are two common themes in literature, this is due to the fact that it can elicit many deep emotions. These two important themes has was used by many Caribbean writers, this is because they either experienced having to leave their native country for political motives, or because they felt a dissatisfaction with their society and deliberately chose to live elsewhere. This comparative essay would draw to its readers the necessary attention to the distinctive experience of alienation
African American autobiography is motivated by a revisionist attitude toward exploring the issues involving the black people in America and the autobiographer himself. The genre of autobiography is often utilised as a tool to demolish the myths of black inferiority, and to break the chains which have held the African American in bondage to the white man over the generations. Thus, often in its final rendering, African American autobiography is a quest for freedom while opposing and repudiating oppression
Throughout the ages, man has always been seeking alienation from his society, group, sect, religion or even his or her country for different reasons. This theme dominated the major works of great poets, novelists and playwrights, like Matthew Thomas Arnold, Daniel Defoe and many others. This study; therefore, aims at developing and extending our understanding of what alienation means in modern theater, and what the reasons behind the alienation of the modern individuals are. This study too aims
The American culture of the 1950's portrays an unpredictable and absurd picture of dramatic advances in the economic prosperity ; uneasily coinciding with extreme , however , partially recognized social and cultural strains. After the second world war , the united states had a great deal of anxiety about any form of government that was different from their own . The actions and policies of Hitler , Stalin, and Trotsky terrified the Americans ; there was a very real fear that communist
of self-reconstruction portrayed from generational viewpoints occupies the central space in the collection. Lahiri contemplates on alienation of her protagonists mostly resulting in psychosis and frustration. Lahiri questions the social and cultural implications of Indian immigrants as part of a minority that thrives in the United States and highlights a new American identity for them. Her estranged characters, engaged in the conflict to balance two different worlds, enable us to understand the complexities
leading contemporary African-American writer, awarded highest honour for letter when she was named the winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature. Her constant focus on the life of the black and revival of their past make her literary discourse to reproduce a true history of the black people that was overlooked by the mainstream society as Morrison argues that “There seems to be a more or less tacit agreement among literary scholars that, because American literature has been clearly the preserve
CHAPTER – 1 INTRODUCTION Diaspora refers to movement of population from there original homeland .As you can see that the novel. The Namesake starts with Diaspora due to which the characters suffer many problems like multiculturalism, hybridity, alienation and identity crisis in her composition of short story book Interpreter of Maladies the stories of this book speaks about South Asian Diaspora community due to which the character of this book also suffers with identity crisis and multiculturalism