About the Book
For ages, women have adopted the stereotypically scripted roles of a mother, sister, daughter, wife, daughter-in-law etc. She is blamed for not being able to fulfil any of the above and cursed and tortured for not being able to set into the slots made by the society and patriarchy. Under slavery, the worst sufferers were women. Sexual exploitation and abuse made women vulnerable to change. In this book I talk about two Black women writers – Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker – and their protagonists who have waged an uphill battle to have their works taken seriously by scholars in the post-slavery period. These Black women writers themselves might have grown by the portrayal of such characters that struggle, suffer and ultimately stand triumphant among the dance of all the negative circumstances. The purpose of this study is to examine strong fictional women created by Black Women Writers and the characters who turn out to be strong self-determinant, socially interactive women. The Foreword by Prof. Nibir K. Ghosh, Chief Editor, Re-Markings, eloquently affirms the significance of the book for scholars and readers.
Author
Dr.
Vibha Bhoot is Assistant Professor of English at Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur.
Author of Communication Techniques
(2008), she has given extension lectures online and offline at many university
campuses in India and abroad. She has published over 60 articles and scholarly
essays on socio-cultural and feminist issues in prestigious national and
international journals. During her twenty years of teaching at JNV University,
Jodhpur she has simultaneously donned the responsibilities of a handicrafts’
business too. She has been in the editorial board of Jodhpur Studies in
English, a Journal published by JNV University, Jodhpur.
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