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VOL. 3, ISSUE 2 (2018)
Maya Angelou: An inspiration for women empowerment …with particular reference to her autobiographies
Authors
Shivangna Sharma, Dr. Malti P Sharma
Abstract
Angelou explores the subjects like identity, rape, racism, and literacy as it contains a sequence of struggles and harassments. With progression in the steady state of life she experiences the more blatant instances of racism, such as a white speaker’s haughty statement at her eighth-grade graduation, her white boss’s assertion on calling her Mary, and a white dentist’s refusal to treat her. Her personal displacement repeats the larger social force that banishes black all across the country. Plagued by the triple conflict of racism, sexism, and power, Maya is depreciated and debilitated at every turn, making her unable to acclimatize at one dwelling, between the ages of 3 to 16 she is made to shuttle around seven different homes. Black woman in America experiences threefold strong-arming of race, sex and class. In the United States the combat for equality, mainly in the southern states, has been long and difficult, from the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s to the political deliberations still going on today. This Research will try to uplift the curtain on those harsh realities and will make readers as well as society familiar with the impulsive issues like racism, Prejudices with in society, colonial history and condition of Blacks in White Society. A thorough study on the authors work will present a realistic account of the socio-economic and cultural condition of the past, making the current generation acclimatize with the life and the times of the earlier generation and its influence on the contemporary life and to develop a sense of respect for the Women in their respective arenas and treat them with equality. The present chapter voices the struggled repression from a racialist and Chauvinist society; as how a black women attempted to create not only racial equality but also gender equality through her undaunted audacity and forbearance. The study focuses on Angelou’s phenomena of resistance in the background of post colonialism through exploring the current means by which people formulate their racial identity. She is an inspiration for all women of the universe.
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Pages:1640-1644
How to cite this article:
Shivangna Sharma, Dr. Malti P Sharma "Maya Angelou: An inspiration for women empowerment …with particular reference to her autobiographies". International Journal of Academic Research and Development, Vol 3, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 1640-1644
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