LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 9 September 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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Third Life - Alice Walker’s Exposé of the Tragic World of the Sharecroppers

Gulab Chillar, Ph.D.

Aftermath of the Abolition of Slavery

Alice Walker is usually seen as a writer focused more with the feminist concerns of the black woman. But the range of her fiction is very wide and goes far beyond the feminist tone. Her socio-political concerns are as strong as her concern for women. The political and economic struggle of her people for freedom from slavery and their sufferings caused by the exploitation and oppression after freedom, constitute an important part of the picture of life on her fictional canvas.

The end of the Civil War had brought about striking changes in the character of the American society. The North emerged at the forefront of the process of recasting the national identity. In spite of the people it had lost, the North had been largely secure from the ravages of the war. The industrial and agricultural sector had recorded significant growth during the civil war. The South on the other hand was devastated by the war that depended almost exclusively on slave labour. It found itself without farmhands after the emancipation of the blacks from their owners. Many of the blacks celebrated the destruction of the slave system by abandoning farms and plantations, and their newfound freedom by traveling across the South in search of loved ones they had been separated from. The blacks as a community were soon confronted with the crisis of what to do next.

It became the urgent need of the time to get people back to work, which was no simple task in a region where brutal warfare had forcibly emancipated the slaves, its primary labour force prior to the Civil War. Their absence from the farms greatly hampered efforts at economic recovery. They were promised the land necessary to sustain an independent existence, but white owners refused to give up. The greatest dilemma in the post-war South was the existence of the blacks who were free but still without the tools necessary to ensure economic independence.

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BPS Women University
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Haryana, India
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