Slavery and Gender Issues Portrayed in American Literature One of the most important part in the history was slavery. It played a major role in early 1800’s. It was one of the main reasons which caused the Civil war. Before the start of the Civil war, the cotton gin was invented and there was a rapid widespread of the machine, especially in the south. Machines such as the cotton gin required extensive labor and African Americans had supplied the labor. There were many more jobs which required inexpensive
black American women writers. Keywords: Womanism, Civil Rights Movement, Black feminism, Women’s strength AFRICAN WOMANISM The growing influence of the post-colonial agenda since the 1980’s has resulted in the creative expression of voice which was till now silenced by the Western master narratives. The painstaking efforts of non-white women from the margins has brought cross-cultural and inter-racial discussions into the arena of academic feminist theorizing which was till now based on gender. One
Stereotypes about gender are the most prolific pattern of stereotyping in media due to the fact that they are more widely accepted by the public opinion. Through the ages, men have been perceived as strong, independent, decision-makers, financial providers, the “backbone”
As America grows ever more diverse, the question of what it means to be an American yields an increasingly complicated answer. Nevertheless, Diversity is a key part of the answer. Whether cultural , religious or racial diversity. Thus the American identity had always been a crucial topic in the Academic field. Leading to researches about the American identity formation, each of them advancing a hypothesis. Literature can play an important role in the formation of various form of social identity
settle down, they develop their own distinctive customs and traditions. Later, when members of such community move away they take with them the baggage of these customs and belief systems (Nayar: 2008). Similarly, Aslam in both of his novels has portrayed his characters with their distinctive customs, traditions, language and belief system. In the recent years, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy and James Clifford have vitalized postcolonial and Diaspora studies through
Mass media play a very significant and determinant role in the contemporary world, by broadcasting and communicating information in fast pace and at the same time entertaining vast audiences. Mass media have a tremendous impact on the structure and history of our society due to the fact that they can influence and shape public opinion, determine political agendas, affect socialization and create a relationship between people and government. They consist of television, press, internet, radio and books
Introduction African-American pop culture and pop culture in general, may be researched by a lot of researchers but I still get the impression that its roots are badly overlooked. Pop culture isn’t only an entertainment but it has some great depth into it that makes it worth learning the subject. In my thesis, I want to give more attention to the development of the African-American culture throughout all these years from the very beginning. How only one race can make a significant changes, not only
At Literature level, Feminist Literary Criticism has taken lots of attention and played a major function in reevaluating literary production, where how it is read and how to identify literary works with female characters as a challenge to the male-dominated outlook for women in literature where women have been historically presented as objects and seen from a male perspective. This paper, however
objectification and in particular, the objectification of women, is an important idea in feminist theory and psychological theories derived from feminism. Many feminists regard sexual objectification as deplorable and as playing an important role in gender inequality. However, some social commentators argue that some modern women objectify themselves as an expression of their empowerment over men, while others argue that increased sexual freedom for women and for gay and bisexual men has led to increase
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin