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Volume 16:12 December 2016
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Celebration of Self in Alice Walker’s Meridian

S. Kaniselvi, M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil.


Abstract

African American women novelists offer a glimpse into the interpretation of African American experience and the exposition of that reality. The authors use their native language and their literary convention to give different perceptions of the African experience. The women novelists explore the issues of freedom and equality which were denied to Blacks in the United States for a long time. Their text consists of the native accent present in Black speech. This takes the reader accurately into the experiences of the Blacks. Most of the themes in their novels include the examination of subjects related to African American culture, racism, religion, feminism, poverty, slavery, etc. They expressed the feeble voices of the Black women in particular, in their novels. The authors of interest had double advantage of being a black and a woman in a racially discriminated society. Hence their writings were authentic in delineating the lives of the African American people, especially that of Black women. This paper studies and presents these aspects in the African American writer Alice Walker’s works, particularly, in the Meridian.

Keywords: Alice Walker, Meridian, Black culture, Racial discrimination, Feminism, Black women

Introduction

African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It is rich in expressive subtlety and social insight, offering illuminating assessments of American identities and history. This literature explores the issues of freedom and equality long denied to Blacks in the United States, along with further themes such as African American culture, racism, religion, slavery, and a sense of home, segregation, migration, feminism, and more. This writing has tended to incorporate oral forms, such as spirituals, sermons, gospel music, blues, and rap. Its oral culture is rich in poetry and appears in the African American tradition of Christian sermons, which make use of deliberate repetition, cadence, and alliteration. It has examined the problem of racial discrimination in all its philosophical, existential and epistemological aspects.

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