Asra Qudsia

Aligarh Muslim University, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Alumna

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Ph.D. in English
African American Female Fiction, Cultural Studies, Intersectionality, Identity Studies, Trans-national Feminism.

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Treatment of Language and Identity in Alice Walker's The Color Purple

Alice Walker uses language as a symbol of growth of her women characters in the novel The Color P... more Alice Walker uses language as a symbol of growth of her women characters in the novel The Color Purple. As the novel opens we see the protagonist is weak and so is her language. As the novel progresses the author evolves the character of the main female protagonist and develops her language as well. It shows that language and identity are interconnected with each other. In this research paper I will try to analyze the use of language as a symbol of identity development as Walker portrays in this novel. The Color Purple asserts the lost identity of African-American women by using their colloquial English rather than the standard American English. Walker uses language as a tool of affirmation for the black identity.

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Intersectionality as an emerging discipline in the 21 st Century Women Studies

South Asian Journal of Sociual Science and Humanities, 2020

The Civil Rights Movement and Feminist Movement in the 1960's America fought for their basic righ... more The Civil Rights Movement and Feminist Movement in the 1960's America fought for their basic rights and eventually were successful in achieving them. These two movements promised a new beginning for African-American men and White American women, but ironically these movements were relegating an equally important issue and that was of Black American women. Both the Civil Right and Feminist activists did not fulfill their promise to help Black women of America to come out of their century's old bondage of multi-dimensional oppression. It was high time for black women activists, writers and intellectuals to raise their voice against the injustice they faced in their own homes where they confronted domestic violence in the hands of male family members and in the homes of their white masters and landladies where these black women worked as maids or nannies. Black feminists argued that feminism which was in vogue at the middle of the 20 th century has always been Euro-centric in its approach; they didn't see a promising future for themselves even when Civil rights movement was successful. For them, it was male dominated movement, sexiest and misogynist in its approach. Also, feminism was not giving enough space to black women as it always carried white supremacy at its core. Black women were left out in protest and rallies which were organized by white middle class American women because of the racist attitude. Black women of America started their own campaign against the oppression they faced in the society to make their voices heard and their identities recognized. In this paper, I have tried to present the core issues of Intersectionality (study of multiple oppressions), its inclusive nature, its difference from traditional feminism and the major arguments of Intersectional theorists who have tried to use Intersectionality as a new research paradigm in women studies.

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Treatment of Language and Identity in Alice Walker's The Color Purple

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Intersectionality as an emerging discipline in the 21 st Century Women Studies

South Asian Journal of Sociual Science and Humanities, 2020

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